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Article: Shakespeare, William
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Shakespeare, William
For Shakespeare and his contemporaries, death
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which modern society has sanitized and rendered largely invisible
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was a brutally conspicuous presence. Early modern London, whose gates were decorated with the boiled heads of traitors and criminals, was a place in which public executions formed a regular staple of entertainment, where the corpses of condemned persons were available for public dissection, and where the fragility of life was repeatedly brought home by devastating epidemics of plague that swept away tens of thousands of citizens at a stroke. Magnificent pageantry might adorn the funeral processions of royalty and nobles; but every church in ...
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