Status Updates From Titus Andronicus

is this unnecessarily violent?
none of the sides are redeemable, am i supposed to be for anyone and against the other?

so repulsive

“Why there they are both, baked in that pie; whereof their mother daintily hath fed, eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”
Goodness me that’s so brutal..

It's becoming increasingly apparent to me that I know absolutely nothing about Roman history and I keep getting the names mixed up

this sucks. I was hoping it would be a little lighter but no, its murder and assault on every page. This might actually beat Othello for my least favourite shakespeare reading experience. Im determined to finish it at some point but Im so close to dnf this garbage.

"...Throughout the play, the response to the intolerable is ritualized, in language and action, because ritual is the ultimate means by which man seeks to order and control his precarious and unstable world.'” - D.J. Palmer

rereading as i write my essay :p

me when i read shakespeare’s most graphic and violent play and it’s graphic and violent : (

Audiobook death scene is just two pencils hitting each other and a British man coughing up a frog you love to hear it!

I’m

Guys Harney and Sons Chocolate Mint tea with Chobani vanilla coffee creamer is one of the most delicious substances on the planet idgaf about Shakespeare I’m all in on drinking diluted artisan ice cream flavors

i hate tamora with all my being and i love shakespeare for delivering such a gruesome play

why is sa such a horrifyingly central theme to european classics?