Causes of Death in Shakespeare Plays
There are 74 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare. This colourful pie chart depicts the 17 different ways they came to their end...
- Stabbed
- Dissapears
- Blinded
- Ripped apart by mob
- Snakebite
- Drops dead
- Throws oneself away
- Buried to neck starvation
- Baked into pie
- Dismemberment then fire
- Grief
- Hanging
- Lack of sleep
- Smothered by pillow
- Beheaded
- Stabbed and poisoned
- Poisoned