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The Complete Deaths: all of the Bard’s 74 scripted deaths in one new play.

Over the past four centuries, the brutality of Shakespeare’s plays has become the subject of endless academic study, but his contemporary critics didn’t approve of the on-stage gore. Michael Dobson,  director of the Shakespeare Institute, said that Elizabethan drama was known for being gruesome: “The English drama was notorious for on-stage deaths; they were thought crass.…

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CNN Holds Morning Meeting To Decide What Viewers Should Panic About For Rest Of Day

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Smith College Protesters Bar Journalists From Covering Sit-In Unless They Support the Cause

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