Coronavirus Closes Shakespeare's Town Ahead Of Birthday Celebrations

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, ENGLAND - MARCH 18: An empty Henley Street, photographed late morning, shows William Shakespeare's Birthplace Museum which has been closed due to Coronavirus (Covid-19) safety precautions on March 18, 2020 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Stratford-upon-Avon usually sees an influx of 2.5 million and 3 million visitors annually. Shakespeare's birthday celebrations in April have also been cancelled in the Warwickshire town. Mirroring thousands of people across the world 'self isolating' at present, literary scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote King Lear and Macbeth whilst under quarantine during the plague in 1606. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)