Episode 35: Postscript

The Visitation: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
The Visitation: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
Episode 35: Postscript
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Although the London plague was not a pandemic as we now understand the word, for the citizens of that great capital, the experience of it was total. For those that did not flee the disease, the City was the World. In this postscript, I present some reflections on life during the plague in London as Defoe described it and offer some comparisons to our experiences during a pandemic of our own.

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Music from Funeral Sentences of Henry Purcell (1659-1695), performed by the Choir of Clare College at the University of Cambridge, Timothy Brown conducting. Used by permission.
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