Word: tyburn
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...have sparked Shakespeare’s creativity. However, due to the strict enforcement of censorship in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare could not make overt comparisons to the government. After all, the English court was a patron of his theater company. At the time, authors were sent to the gallows at Tyburn or starved to death in the Tower of London just for subtly criticizing the Queen. Meanwhile, Shakespeare faced an increase in the number of rival theater companies—giving new meaning to the statement, by Jacques in “As You Like It,” that...