As any ninth grader who’s slogged through Julius Caesar can tell you, Shakespeare borrowed some of his plots from history. But at least two of Shakespeare’s plays were probably inspired by current events from his own day.
He wrote The… Read More
In 1631, Charles I ordered an English printer to print 1,000 copies of the Bible. It contained a typo. The Seventh Commandment was missing a “not” and read “Thou shalt commit adultery.”