Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

9 reviews

amotoquinha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, War, Racial slurs, Murder, Rape, Misogyny, Suicide, and Body horror

kygpub's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

this play is fucking exhausting. somehow, that is a good thing.

okay. to be frank, a lot of things about this suck. misogyny and racism run rampant. characters get put on stage without logic or justification (

what were lavinia and bassanius  even doing there?

). all but 3 of them have something utterly hateable about them. but i can't bring myself to hate the play itself. it's too interesting of a historical case study, too crafty in its machinations, too utterly outrageous in the lengths it is willing to go to elicit the reaction it desires. it's probably blasphemy to prefer this to the greats of tragedy, but i've never been a fan of supernatural horror and this fell right in my niche: overt classical references, revenges that actually come to fruition, and buckets upon buckets of blood. borders on too nasty for its own good (for other people i'm sure it crosses that line entirely); for me, it pulls enough punches to make it bearable—if, as i said, exhausting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Misogyny, Violence, Rape, Gore, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, and Racial slurs

Minor: Pregnancy

megmata's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Gore, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Infidelity

carrieclothwright's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

This is horrific, zero points Will.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Racism, Torture, Death, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Murder

This play is a bunch of people killing and maiming and raping each other. I'm surprised there's anyone left at the end. Skip it; not even the language makes this one worth it. CW: rape

One of the women is raped by two men, then her hands cut off and her tongue cut out so that she cannot indicate who perpetrated the violence. One of the characters is black, and I know times were different etc etc but there are multiple references to the blackness of his skin equating to the blackness of his soul, and just.... no.

matt315's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

contains the best shakespeare line, “villain, i have done thy mother”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Murder, Infidelity, Gore, Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Racism, and Misogyny

jjstallone's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

Not my favorite from Shakespeare, but worth the read. What happens to Lavinia is disgusting, and it loses a whole star for making me read that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Grief, and Violence

jojo_'s review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Slavery

lex_y's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Death, Child death, Cannibalism, Body horror, and Blood

What if Quinton Tarantino redid Julius Caesar and the black character was deliciously, horribly, irredeemably evil? That's this play.

sofiaxaguilar's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Violence, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Misogyny