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More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

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Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

Catharine Arnold

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

Catharine Arnold

Catharine Arnold

Catharine Arnold

Bio: Catharine Arnold is a British author, journalist and academic, best known for her 'London' series of five popular history books: Necropolis: London and Its Dead, Bedlam: London and its mad and City of Sin: London and its vices.

Known for:

Necropolis
Bedlam: London and Its Mad
Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London
City of Sin: London and its vices

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