A Young Shakespeare, fresh off the heels of several plague scares, desperately seeking the alternative entertainment to Bear Baiting, comes up with an early draft for easing the public into ‘less vile content’ than what they’re faced with in their everyday post-medieval lifestyles by crafting this early Renaissance piece of gory horror, twisted up in a convoluted and hyperbolically violent plot that makes Kill Bill look mild to the modern audience.

2-stars for this violent plot
5-stars for the full cast performance.

.. still notably better than several novels I’ve DNFd lately…