Top 5 Creepiest Shakespeare Moments
Number 1: Titus Andronicus bakes Tamora’s sons into a pie and then serves it to her at a grand feast (where they pretty much all meet their ends.)
Gross. Hannibal Lecter probably got a few pointers from this gory and explicit play, which details exactly how Titus accomplishes this.
Lavinia, come,
Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,
Let me go grind their bones to powder small
And with this hateful liquor temper it;
And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.
Come, come, be every one officious
To make this banquet; which I wish may prove
More stern and bloody than the Centaurs’ feast.
So, now bring them in, for I’ll play the cook,
And see them ready ‘gainst their mother comes.
(Photo: Globe Theatre’s 2006 production of Titus Andronicus)