4 Additional Context for Understanding the Texts and Time Periods

To see how intertwined in society the effects of the Black Plague were, visit Dr. Marissa Nicosia’s Cooking in the Archives article “Plague Water”.

To learn more about diseases and human progress against them, please listen to “Staph Retreat”

To Explore other works, please visit the Lost Plays Database and investigate “Rogers and Ley’s List (1656)” of all the plays written at that time.

To further understand the medical system and ideas of Shakespeare’s time, please visit The National Library of Medicine’s page titled, “‘And There’s the Humor of it’: The World of Shakespeare’s Humors”

For information regarding early Indigenous bookmaking, please visit and watch this YouTube video series: “Early Indigenous Bookmaking,” with Steffi Dippold and Michael Galban, Part 1 of 7