sentences:  In May 1636, however, the London theatres shut down for one of their longest and most severe closures due to bubonic plague.Shirley left for his four years in Dublin (1636–40), and in the next year or so the playing company for which he had been serving as house dramatist, Queen Henrietta's Men, sold off their stock of Shirley's plays to the London booksellers.The result was that a group of Shirley's plays appeared in print in the late 1630s.