Why the best version of a Shakespeare speech is in camp horror classic 'Theatre of Blood'

A Magician Without her Books

Delicious Cannibalism – Titus feeds Tamora her own sons in Titus Andronicus

Farewell to arms – Titus cuts his hand off and then laughs

Extreme Horror - What happens to Lavinia in Titus Andronicus

“Religiously they ask a sacrifice” – Alarbus is disembowelled and burned in Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare’s Only Devil – The Duchess Experiments with Necromancy in 2 Henry VI

Who can see the ghost? – Banquo returns in Macbeth

Eye-popping Effects – The blinding of Gloucester in King Lear and the history of eye gouging on stage and screen.

Cold Opens on Stage? – The Old King’s Ghost Appears in Hamlet

Pound of Flesh – Horror in Shakespeare and Mutilation in The Merchant of Venice