Lifespans
Two lives, one above the other. Shakespeare and Galileo were born in the same year; Napoleon and Beethoven a year apart. When two stretches overlap, everything one of them did was news while the other was working, and that tells you more about a period than any list of dates.
Where this sits
- Comes after
- Before and after
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Did their lives overlap?
- Yes
- No
Why Shakespeare (1564–1616), an English playwright. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), a poet of New Spain. They missed each other by 32 years. Not one manuscript of his plays survives: they exist because two actors from his company gathered them seven years after he died.