Kathryn Harkup: Death By Shakespeare [2020] paperback HISTO Any human whose name is

Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies

thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house

Bankrolled by mountains of imperial wealth and without a foreign enemy to keep them united

while recording lovingly the landscape and the boats on which they sailed

'As gripping as a novel

Kathryn Harkup: Death By Shakespeare [2020] paperback HISTO Any human whose name isWilliam Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions shock, sadness, fear that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances