The main satisfaction of an Elizabethan audience would be that they could relate to the violence on stage. They themselves were probably very much used to pubic executions and bear baiting. The acts that, to us, are gory an horrific, could have been a reality to a majority of the audience: "[He is] to be hanged until he were half dead, his members cut-off, his bowels to be cast into the fire, his head to …showed first 75 words of 510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 510 total… surviving son) declares, as new Emperor, that he will bring a new age of place and justice. There is a great feeling of love and wee learn Saturninus and Titus are to be buried; Tamora is to be left for the birds Aaron the Moor is to be buried up to his neck in sand and starved to death. Great pleasure is got from these evens because everything is over and justly dealt with.