Shakespearean Tragedy

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King Duncan dies offstage between Acts I and II of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth . The play announces his murder early in Act II, after Macbeth and Lady Macbeth complete the k...

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Ophelia dies offstage in Shakespeare’s Hamlet after being driven to insanity by grief, trauma, and the collapse of her world. After her father Polonius is killed by Hamlet, sh...

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