Does he have to have had written the plays, or can this merely be the same man, without his OTL life?Have famous playwright William Shakespeare arrive in America i.e the future US at some point in his OTL lifetime.
Does he have to have had written the plays, or can this merely be the same man, without his OTL life?
Then, unless he odes it when old, there's no infrastructure for the playwright.He doesn't have to had written the exact same plays iotl but based on what we know of the man maybe he'd have taken a similar turn in a different setting.
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.
The Boston that doesn't exist yet.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
The Boston that doesn't exist yet.
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.