And whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,
I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,
To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,
Or, at the least, make them his enemies.
Tamora
Titus Andronicus Act
V, Scene ii Line 77
This is a weird scene in a weird play. I think Tarzan will
have abandoned his post nearby and be back up in the rafters by the end of this scene.
So Tamora, the queen of the Goths, who’s caused most of
Titus’s troubles has come to Titus’s house with her two sons in tow. The three
of them are in some sort of disguise, but we're not sure what they look like. The stage directions says simply 'disguised.' Whatever they're wearing, Titus recognizes them. No, they say,
we’re not Tamora and her two sons, we’re revenge and murder and rape. And they
think that Titus is so far over the edge that he will believe that. Titus, who
isn’t that far over the edge, decides that he’ll go along with them and by
doing so gets Tamora to leave her two sons with him. And as soon as she’s gone,
out come the knives and the two sons’ throats are cut while Lavinia holds the
basin with her stumps (remember; hands cut off by these same sons) as they
bleed out into the basins.
Today’s Totally Random line is Tamora talking to her two
sons when Titus leaves the scene for a moment. She’s talking about how she’s
going to get the Goths to turn against Titus while she’s at the banquet with
him. What she doesn’t realize is that Titus will be feeding Tamora her two sons, without her knowing it,
at that banquet.
Like I said, I think we'll be losing Tarzan again on this one.
Told you so. See him way up there and away from my desk on that log hanging against the wall?
Here's a closer up picture. We know you're not one of those Coriolanus actors buddy. You're not fooling anyone.
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