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Lots of poison flowing in Hamlet -- the old King gets some dropped in his ear (before the play opens), Laertes coats the point of his sword in some (thus killing both Hamlet, himself, and Claudius), and both Queen Gertrude and Claudius drink some from the same cup of poisoned wine. Romeo kills himself with poison. Juliet tries to follow, but Romeo left none for her, leaving her to stab herself instead. I must be missing some. Do Titus or Richard III do any poisoning? |
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I think these characters pretty much round it out: Anne, on Richard III's orders, freeing him to make a strategic political marriage ("Rumor it abroad that Anne, my wife, is very grievous sick; I will take order for her keeping close" and "Give out that Anne, my queen, is sick and like to die"); Portia, Brutus's wife, "swallow'd fire" in "Julius Caesar"; King John ("Poisoned--ill fare!"); and Regan, by her sister, Goneril, in "King Lear." |