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(Unverified)Oct 14th 2009 5:16PM
First of all, no one is surprised that Shakespeare didn't work alone. Big whoop. Secondly, did the idiot who wrote this article even *read* Titus Andronicus? How in God's name is it "weird"? The violence depicted in Shakespeare's plays always occurred off-stage. We must also refrain from putting the play in a contemporary context--in Elizabethan times, violence was a part of daily life. Public executions were the 'highlight' of any day; crowds gathered around, with children in tow, to watch bear baiting, quartering, etc. The description of violence in Titus wouldn't have phased them in the least.
There are not "several" rapes in T.A., just one. There is one mention of cannibalism, although two sons were eaten (by an completely unaware mother). I do not recall any live burials at all, and I am have read T.A. extensively. Also, no one commits suicide in the play. There were not "buckets of blood", because, as I stated earlier, violence was never shown onstage.
The Neanderthal that wrote this apparently watched the Julie Taymor film version and decided that it was exactly like the play.
leilaclaireOct 14th 2009 5:27PM
Hi Audra,
You may have read Shakespeare tons, but I've seen Shakespeare plenty. At the Globe in London three years ago, Titus was regularly interrupted by people fainting (not because of the heat...it was fine), but because of the ABSURD amounts of blood (http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Theatre-Review/titus-andronicus-comes-with-warning). Specifically in the scene where Lavinia reveals that her tongue has been slashed, and she opens her mouth and blood dribbles out (these are the stage directions).
Also, there is plenty of impaling in Shakespeare, but TA goes one step further and has throats slit on stage (Titus slays both Lavinia -- his daughter-- and Tamora on stage before Saturnius than kills him). At least in Hamlet, its poison, and then a stabbing behind a curtain, Lear features dead bodies being dragged ON stage, and Othello has suicide and strangling, but not throat slitting. It's very, very dark, and was forgotten and oft-neglected until recently. Many still believe its not fully his work. (Even Wiki says so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus#Reputation)
And buried alive? In the crucial end scene, Lucius says about Aaron: "Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;
There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food." Ok, it doesn't say "bury him alive!" but its pretty freaking clear that's what we are getting at here.