Whether it’s Lear calling Goneril a plague-sore, or Mercutio cursing the families in Romeo and Juliet by saying “A plague on both your houses!” Shakespeare’s works testify to the fact that rampant plague was a very real, and very prevalent, part of Shakespeare's daily life. Rebecca Totaro professor of literature and culture of early modern England at Florida Gulf Coast University & author of several plague books including Plague in Print, joins us today to talk about plague in Shakespeare's lifeti