Who
hath we here? Rome’s royal empress,
Unfurnisht
of her well-beseeming troop.
-Bassianus
Titus Andronicus Act II, Scene iii, Line 56
Bassianus and
Lavinia have come across Tamora in the woods. The latter is alone, and the two
formers are taunting her. Unfortunately for these latter two, Tamora’s not
going to be alone for long. Her two sons show up, and that’s going to be the
end of Bassianus and the beginning of Lavinia’s misery.
Just to be clear,
in case you’re not, that second line could be read Without her fine-looking entourage.
Yes, it’s a
pretty dark play: lots of death and destruction. Personally, the older I get the
less inclined I am towards this type of entertainment. I’ll take a nice light
comedy over this sort of thing any day of the week. Unless, of course, it's Shakespeare.
This is my entourage from a few years back. I'm afraid those little black and white guys are no longer with us, and the other little guy in the middle is not quite so little anymore, but other than that, the entourage is still intact, and it's still a really good entourage.
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