cracktastic Renaissance stage directions

[truepenny]

poisoninjest has THE best LiveJournal poll in the history of ever.

(My favorite, of those not in the poll, is [She gives] a box o' th' ear to her brother. And then there's the necrophiliac ones from The Second Maiden's Tragedy . . .)

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[writingjen.livejournal.com]

I always thought Lavinia's re-entrance in Titus Andronicus was pretty creepy: "Her Tongue cut out, her Hands cut off, and Ravish'd." This play also, incidentally, has my favorite "oh, snap" line, Aaron the Moor's retort to Tamora's sons....