Titus Andronicus (theatre)/Funny: Difference between revisions

** In scene (3.1) Aaron promises Titus two of his sons returned alive if he or one of his family will give the Emperor a hand. Literally. The request is definitely not funny- it's pointless and cruel- but the argument about whose hand will go is easily played for a laugh.

* The latter half of Act 3, Scene 2:

Titus: "Out on thee, murderer! ...Poor harmless fly, that with his pretty buzzing melody came here to make us merry, and you have killed him!" }}

* Then, when Marcus says that the fly reminded him of Aaron the Moor, Tamora's vicious lover, he stabs the already-dead insect multiple times. And then lampshades the impassioned foolishness of it all.

** The above sequence was added some years after the play was originally written, and it has always seemed to me to be a tongue-in-cheek jibe by the author at the sensationalism of his early work.