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I'm Elise Willems.

And I'm Jessica Vasami. And we don't know exactly how

famous poet and playwright William Shakespeare died, but based on accounts, historians have made

some guesses. It's known that Will kicked the bucket around April 23, 1616, within a month of

drafting a new will, in which, ironically, he refers to himself as being in the pinnacle of perfect health. 16, 16, God, that was so long ago. Jesus. So long ago. And to make that kind of claim. Uh-huh. Yeah, at that time. Though I guess that was maybe also just a thing that people put in their wills. Like, that was just a statement that they said. Back in the day. The bard was known for enjoying his spirits a little too much, so there's a bit of an assumption that he eventually drank himself to death. Willie shakes would drink and party. That's what he called himself when he party. Oh, for sure. I knew that. Willie shakes, I knew that. Willie shakes would drink and party with fellow playwright Ben Johnson and the poet Michael Drayton.

In one of the diaries of John Ward, who was a vicar of Stratford and a pseudo-biographist of Shakespeare,

he wrote a single sentence suggesting what might have caused Shakespeare's death.

Quote, Shakespeare, Drayton, and Johnson had a merry

meeting, and it seems, drank too hard for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.

Even so, we don't know for sure if he died of alcohol poisoning or some underlying condition,

which is excessive drinking exacerbated. It's pretty unlikely that drinking alone was what did

him in. Yeah, as biography

dot com, the wisest of biography sites tells us, he probably met his end thanks to one of the many

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