D) Caught a fever after drinking too hard with two other playwrights during a merry meeting, so basically a really bad hangover.
Wrong. The drinking story and the merry meeting and the whole fevered
hangover thing is a nice quaint, small-town rumour uttered as no more than a gag
50 years after Shakespeare’s death. Seriously, it was nothing more than a joke. And most serious Shakespeare scholars view it as such notwithstanding some researchers believe it; which is remarkable, but whatever.
Regardless, the merry meeting hypothesis is false; put another way, not true.
For a complete researched review of the suggestion a merry meeting-induced-fevered hangover caused Shakespeare’s death go to the latest merry meeting research at www.shakespearesdeath.com and then decide for yourself. Odds are you will agree it’s make-believe. But it certainly made for a great joke – 400 years running.
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