‘The first time he walked into the office, I warned you against him. All the violence in that play! You can’t write things like that without being disturbed.’ ‘That’s not true,’ Ewan remarked, unexpectedly taking my side. ‘Shakespeare wrote some extremely violent tragedies. Look at the blinding of Gloucester in King Lear or the multiple killings in Titus Andronicus, some of them utterly disgusting, and yet—’ ‘I think we can manage without a lecture in English drama, thanks all the same,’ Hawthorne cut in.
