I agree with Marina Warner's comments regarding Lucy Bailey's Titus Andronicus at the Globe (Comment, 12 May), but I don't believe the play aspires to new levels of savagery. As she rightly points out, animal-baiting was common "entertainment" on Bankside, often promoted by the same people who ran the theatres. Public executions were another popular blood-fest involving the removal of "privities" …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM on May 16, 2014