4 stars
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.**
Kathryn Harkup brings us Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts. The book is an in depth look at history and medicine as relate to death during Shakespeare’s time. Harkup then guides the reader further into how Shakespeare represented death in his works and how that was potentially affected by the world in which he lived.
Harkup clearly is well-researched and presented information in a way that was accessible regardless of level of background knowledge. My only real criticism was that I would have wished for the deaths to be organized by Shakespeare’s works and by individual rather than by death type in a flowing narrative.
This was an interesting book and I was grateful to have early access.
Bumpy Oak Books 
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