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The most famously gory of Shakespeare's plays is Titus Andronicus, which not only features a large number of murders of various kinds, but also a rape, after which the rapists cut off the rape victim's hands and cut out her tongue so she cannot identify them. The main character is persuaded to cut off his own hand in an effort to save the lives of two of his sons who are executed anyway. Two people are cooked and fed to their mother for supper. The play ends with Titus killing his daughter Lavinia (the aforesaid rape victim), his enemy Tamora and her husband, while he himself is killed. His last remaining son and brother execute Tamora's lover by burying him alive.

Actually as many people die in Hamlet as do in Titus, but Titus wins the blue ribbon for sheer grisliness.

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