What did happened to all the dead bodies in the Shakespeare's tragedies?

Question

Like after they were killed, did their bodies lay there rotting, or did Morticians take their bodies away and out of the castles and houses.
Like in Hamlet, lots of people died in the palace like Polonius, Gertrude, Claudius, Osric, Laertes & even Hamlet himself.

Answer 1

In a live-theater production of Shakespeare, the actors playing the characters who were supposed to be killed are generally taken off stage -- either by stagehands between scenes or acts, or sometimes carried off by the other actors (something usually done to Hamlet, during the "Good night, sweet prince!" speech at the end of the play).

At the end of the play, the actors -- even the "dead" ones -- come out for their curtain call, when they bow to the audience during the applause.

In the actual historic events that Shakespeare was depicting, when there were such events, the funeral customs varied between countries and times. In "Julius Caesar," for example, after Caesar's assassination, his body was taken away by the Romans and burned on a stack of wood -- the traditional Roman funeral pyre. In "Richard III," the bodies of the two princes were simply hidden somewhere in the Tower -- hundreds of years later, a pair of skeletons of two young boys about the ages of the two princes were found in a disused corner of the Tower of London. But mostly they would have, as you say, been taken care of by whoever cared for the dead in those times, and usually buried.

Answer 2

Hmmm ... you do know that Shakespeare wrote plays that were performed on stage .... so no one was really dead?? And in those days, bodies were buried or burned, not that different from now.

Answer 3

shakespear knows!