AHC: William Shakespeare in America

Have famous playwright William Shakespeare arrive in America i.e the future US at some point in his OTL lifetime.
 
Perhaps pseudohistories of the native tribes as if they lived as Europeans? That is perfectly in line with European thinking of the time: it was a very solipsistic viewpoint where the present was the way the world was (the clocks in Julius Caesar) and the form of life known to Europeans was how life was lived. I could see references to dukes and kings of the Iroquois or things of that nature.
 
One of the myths surrounding Shakespeare (Dr Grandin, among others) is that "Shakespeare can only die when his plays are no longer performed". While obviously metaphorical, given the prevalence in British mythology of "The Hero that will return to Britain in its hour of greatest need" (over a dozen heroes have this myth attached to them), maybe he's wandering around, unable to die because people keep performing his plays, however much he criticises them.

If so, once Hollywood kicks off, he'd make a bee-line for it.
 
One of the myths surrounding Shakespeare (Dr Grandin, among others) is that "Shakespeare can only die when his plays are no longer performed". While obviously metaphorical, given the prevalence in British mythology of "The Hero that will return to Britain in its hour of greatest need" (over a dozen heroes have this myth attached to them), maybe he's wandering around, unable to die because people keep performing his plays, however much he criticises them.

If so, once Hollywood kicks off, he'd make a bee-line for it.

 
Shakespeare has a sudden religious experience, possibly caused by the fever that led to his death. He converts to Puritanism, for reasons known only to him. Though condemning his previous life, he becomes somewhat of a celebrity amongst the Puritans. In 1630, an elderly Shakespeare arrives in the new Massachusetts Bay colony, where he lives out the remainder of his life, dying a few years later in Boston.

Otherwise, if you don't want Shakespeare to suddenly become a religious fanatic, you can just have him live 20 more years and find a reason to bring him to New England or Virginia or something.
 

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Shakespeare survives the fever that kills him and he decides to write his greatest work yet. He wants to write on a family in Boston. He travels to the new world to see whats it like
 
Maybe his family's recusancy/Catholicism forces them to move to America because of religious persecution. :p
 
Problem is Shakespeare died in 1616 or nine years after the founding of Jamestown, which at that point was a few dozen houses in a disease infested swamp. The first properly large settlement was the Massachusetts Bay colony which was founded in 1630, or 14 years after he was dead. Best option is to have the Roanoke colony succeed and thus kickstart the whole settlement process.
 
Problem is Shakespeare died in 1616 or nine years after the founding of Jamestown, which at that point was a few dozen houses in a disease infested swamp. The first properly large settlement was the Massachusetts Bay colony which was founded in 1630, or 14 years after he was dead. Best option is to have the Roanoke colony succeed and thus kickstart the whole settlement process.

Or have the English properly avoid or prepare for swampland and marshes.
 
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