Shakespearean deaths: swordfights, snakebites & poison
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Shakespeare's Death
In the shakespearian canon, like with many old texts, there are really interesting instances of people dying from from emotion. I am interested in your take on how we should interpret those deaths. Was there a belief that this really could happen the time? And to a certain extent, it can. It wasn't such an outrageous idea that people would standing in the audience going, what the hell is this?
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