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Elizabethan England loved its plays bloody and violent. Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" delivered what audiences of the day wanted.

" Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Draw near them then in being merciful.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."

Titus should have listened to Tamora.

[RoosterRedux]

Titus should have listened to Tamora.

Then there would have been no play...no tragedy.;-)

This is one of my favorite plays...I like its brutality.

It is all Rome in a way.

Gothic Europe could never be bloodier than Rome. I think that is the final message.

Shakespeare (whoever he is) gets to the bottom line of Rome in that period (and gets to the bottom line of the Goths as well).

The currency of the empire is blood...and revenge!

This is the beginning of the modern world. Out of this world of blood emerges the Christian world...slowly, painfully, in sores and bulbous spread by plague...the modern world emerged.