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16 de oct. de 2018 · An arranged marriage, a scandalous trial, political scheming, and a poison tart—no, they aren’t the convoluted plot points of a long-lost Shakespeare play, but the ingredients to a scandal that rocked the Jacobean court.
5 de abr. de 2016 · Potions, poisons, and herbs are most definitely written into the plays of William Shakespeare—in fact, the language of the four humors—the then prevailing medical theory—pervades his...
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16 de abr. de 2014 · It’s the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, and drugs and potions played central parts in his work. But were they based on real substances? Scientists have tried to find out.
22 de abr. de 2016 · A dateless bargain to engrossing death. Shakespeare turned to poison once more in his timeless tragedy of young lovers Romeo and Juliet, who resolve their troubled relationship with the dregs...
‘Thinking with Poison’ explores the fascination of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with poison and poisoning, as a secretive and therefore especially heinous form of murder, often used by the socially weak and marginal against their natural superiors, although sometimes also employed by powerful courtiers, as in the scandalous murder of ...
Let me have a bit of poison, something that spreads so fast through the veins that the tired-out person who takes it will lose the breath of life as quickly as gunpowder explodes from the inside of a cannon.
5 de abr. de 2020 · Cymbeline took Shakespeare’s playgoers into a world without plague, but one filled with the dangers of infection nonetheless. The play’s evil queen experiments with poisons on cats and...
