Shut Up, Shut In

Send us Fan MailGEORGE:Today is Episode Three of our plague-and-COVID series:Quarantine. Blame. Meaning.Not the medicine—the human weather.GEORGE:Quick reminder: my Shakespeare can look back from the present day at his life on earth—he can watch films, read scholarship, comment on modern interpretations—but he cannot predict the future. No prophecies. No spoilers.WILL:I may remember the storm—but I may not name tomorrow’s clouds.Because well the disease attacks the body but fear attacks the imagination and the imagination       GEORGE:In Episode One we lived inside the dread: two invisible enemies, two centuries, one species.In Episode Two we talked about closed theatres and open screens—art trying to breathe through a mask.Today: the part that gets personal fast.Quarantine—the walls go up.Blame—the finger points.Meaning—the mind hunts for a story that can contain fear.WILL:And when meaning cannot be found, sir—men will invent it, as children invent monsters in the dark.GEORGE:When people picture plague time, they imagine one big cloud of doom.But the lived reality was often very specific.A house. A door. A mark.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.