Death by Shakespeare

Kathryn Harkup

Original title: Death By Shakespeare

earliest edition we have, 2020 Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020 hardcover 368 pages

"William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions? shock, sadness, fear? that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions wer...

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Death by Shakespeare edition · 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 368 pages · 9781472958204
Death By Shakespeare hardcover · 2020 · Bloomsbury Sigma · 368 pages · 9781472958228
Death by Shakespeare edition · 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472958211

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