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