Shakespeare Read A Long
We’ve finished up Love’s Labor’s Lost and are now on to Titus. Love’s was strange, and I did enjoy it very much. The women were portrayed a bit different than the usual Shakespearean take on a woman’s role. I found that fact very interesting. A lot of the dialog was fun quips and that is always fun to read.
The Roman general Titus Andronicus returns from war with four prisoners who vow to take revenge against him. They rape and mutilate Titus’ daughter and have his sons killed and banished. Titus kills two of them and cooks them into a pie, which he serves to their mother before killing her too. The Roman emperor kills Titus, and Titus’ last remaining son kills the emperor and takes his place.
Nice cheerful read for these times!
*UPDATE We have finished up Titus and WOW! So much violence, mutilation, splattering of blood, PIE, massive racism, misogyny, xenophobia, revenge……all of it SO MUCH LIKE our political and social justice landscape TODAY. We all LOVED reading this so very much. Was Shakespeare making a statement? Trying to make us see the ridiculousness of it all? Was Shakespeare trying to make us look at ourselves?
Roman society lives on today.
We are living it right now.
What are you going to do to change it?
