"BTW, some guy named William Shakespeare wrote some plays with rather violent content, but his writing was such that one did not have to actually witness the violence in order to understand it or imagine it."
Seen much Shakespeare?
Suicide, Murder, etc.
Seen much Shakespeare?
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Yes, I have. I guess I did not make myself clear. My point is that there does not have to be a graphic display of violence. For example, I have never seen a performance of "Hamlet" in which the deaths in the final scene featured blood squirting everywhere. We know that there are deaths, but we are spared the realistic portrayal of guts and gore.
Tom Bowdler certainly thought it all needed to be "sanitized".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler