{"id":11095,"date":"2022-02-14T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=200300"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:18:09","slug":"shakespearean-deaths-swordfights-snakebites-poison","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/shakespearean-deaths-swordfights-snakebites-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespearean deaths: swordfights, snakebites &amp; poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 14 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>From poison and fatal snakebites to dying from a broken heart, more than 250 named characters die in <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/elizabethan\/william-shakespeare-kenneth-branagh-facts-life-plays-playwright-writer-bard\/&quot;\">William Shakespeare<\/a>\u2019s plays. Speaking with Ellie Cawthorne, Kathryn Harkup guides us through a grisly range of the Bard\u2019s death scenes. She looks at the real history and science behind them, and how they would have been staged in Elizabethan England.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-200300-3&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/HistoryExtra_2022_02_14-656e3e7.mp3?_=3&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/HistoryExtra_2022_02_14-656e3e7.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/HistoryExtra_2022_02_14-656e3e7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Kathryn Harkup is the author of <em>Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/death-by-shakespeare-snakebites-stabbings-and-broken-hearts-9781472958228\/9781472958204&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Death-Shakespeare-Snakebites-Stabbings-Broken\/dp\/B084RG3PXD\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UF329A6W9T0K&amp;keywords=Death+By+Shakespeare%3A+Snakebites%2C+Stabbings+and+Broken+Hearts&amp;qid=1644945091&amp;sprefix=death+by+shakespeare+snakebites+stabbings+and+broken+hearts%2Caps%2C295&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/death-by-shakespeare\/kathryn-harkup\/9781472958228&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/shakespearean-deaths-swordfights-snakebites-poison\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ellie Cawthorne Published: Monday, 14 February 2022 at 12:00 am From poison and fatal snakebites to dying from a broken heart, more than 250 named characters die in William Shakespeare\u2019s plays. 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