If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.
The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.
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