What do Stephen King, Clive Barker, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allen Poe all have in common?? They WISH they could throw the gore the way Shakespeare did!! Take a trip with us back to the days before chainsaws and automatic weapons, when men were men and bears were bears and murder was up close and personal.
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Episode Sources:
Harkup, Katherine: Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts – Bloomsbury Sigma
Meier, Allison: The Poisons, Potions and Charms of Shakespeare's Plays, hyperallergic.com
Mabillard, Amanda. Violence in Shakespeare's Plays. www.shakespeare-online.com
Slingsby, Dr. Tim: Would Shakespeare's Potions Really Work? www.britishcouncil.org
Huxtable, Ryan J.: On the Nature of Shakespeare's Cursed Hebona
Top Ten Most Interesting Shakespeare Deaths: SmashingLists.com
Hammond, Claudia: Would Shakespeare’s poisons and drugs work in reality? BBC.com
Maltby, Kate: What Shakespeare cam- and can't - teach us about Covid-19
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Aubrey Whitlock, The American Shakespeare Center
