Re: Dromio and Juliet

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Absolutely! Shakespeare's audience LOVED gore! Take a look at *any* of the
Jacobean revenge tragedies and there's a pile of limbs a metre high at the
end. In a lot of ways not a whole lot different to today's audiences ...

> Hell, son!  Have a look at _Coriolanus_, or _Titus Andronicus_.  And
> while the facts are sketchy, it's probable that the Globe first burned
> down as a result of canon fire in a performance of _H8_.  Shakespeare's
> gore and violence made Marlowe's ugliest moments--_Tamburlaine_ I & II
> included--look like Sunday afternoons in Disney films.  

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