Line #1 MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness/Theatre


1	The MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness as applied to theatrical works, such as plays, musicals and operas. It should be noted that the rating of many of the works listed below can vary somewhat from production to production, depending on how specific the author's stage directions are.
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3	In general, an act of violence committed offstage but shown afterwards (e.g. a freshly-killed corpse, a severed body part or a victim with visible fresh wounds or mutilations appearing on the stage) will rank a level lower than if the atrocity were committed onstage; if not shown afterwards but heard via screams or other sounds, it will be a level or two lower still. A committed or attempted violent act will rank at least one level higher if the victim is a child.
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5	%% If adding a work that doesn't have its own page, please append the author's name, non-italicised, in brackets, like this: * ''Title of Work'' (Author Name) [[note]]Comments on violence[[/note]]
6	%% Works are to be sorted alphabetically by title within each level, ignoring initial definite or indefinite articles in any language (the, a/an, le/la/les/l', un/une, der/die/das, ein/eine etc.)
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9	[[folder:Level 0]]
10	* ''Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell''
11	* ''Theatre/CosiFanTutte''
12	* ''Theatre/{{Eumenides}}''
13	* ''Theatre/{{Lelisirdamore}}''
14	* ''Theatre/DieFledermaus''
15	* ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''
16	* ''Theatre/LadyWindermeresFan''
17	* ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost''
18	* ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro'' [[note]] The disguised Susanna repeatedly slaps her husband in the face onstage, but that's it.[[/note]]
19	* ''Theatre/TheMerryWidow''
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22	[[folder:Level 1]]
23	* ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' [[note]] Onstage wrestling with fatal intent on one side.[[/note]]
24	* ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' [[note]] Lingering onstage death by tuberculosis.[[/note]]
25	* ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors'' [[note]] Onstage beating of servants.[[/note]]
26	* ''Theatre/MeasureForMeasure'' [[note]] Offstage beheadings, never heard or shown.[[/note]]
27	* ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' [[note]] Failed attempt at a legislated gruesome mutilation. May rise to a 2 depending on how much "preparation" is shown before being interrupted.[[/note]]
28	* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' [[note]] Onstage major physical quarrelling, including a threat of eye-scratching.[[/note]]
29	* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' [[note]] Onstage rough handling of a lady.[[/note]]
30	* ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'' [[note]] Onstage forceful abduction of a lady.[[/note]]
31	* ''Theatre/PericlesPrinceOfTyre'' [[note]] Onstage attempted murder.[[/note]]
32	* ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'' [[note]] Onstage beginning of non-explicit supernatural torture.[[/note]]
33	* ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' [[note]] Onstage beating; non-violent but sustained domestic abuse. A hard 1.[[/note]]
34	* ''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'' [[note]] Onstage throwing of dishes at people.[[/note]]
35	* ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' [[note]] Onstage beating.[[/note]]
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38	[[folder:Level 2]]
39	* ''Theatre/{{Agamemnon}}'' [[note]] Offstage killing accompanied by shouting.[[/note]]
40	* ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'' [[note]] Bodies of offstage suicide victims revealed onstage.[[/note]]
41	* ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' [[note]] Serial offstage fatal poisonings; attempted murder.[[/note]]
42	* ''Theatre/CavalleriaRusticana'' [[note]] Onstage biting of ear, visibly drawing blood; offstage killing with audible commotion. Can be Level 3 if the killing is staged onstage.[[/note]]
43	* ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'' [[note]] Freshly-killed murder victim's body brought onstage.[[/note]]
44	* ''Theatre/TheLibationBearers'' [[note]] Offstage killing accompanied by a scream.[[/note]]
45	* ''Theatre/TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'' [[note]] Onstage (mild) burning of skin with wax tapers and beating.[[/note]]
46	* ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier'' [[note]] Onstage wounding with a sword and sexual harassment.[[/note]]
47	* ''Theatre/TheTwoNobleKinsmen'' [[note]] Onstage death resulting from offstage killing.[[/note]]
48	* ''Theatre/TheWomenOfTrachis'' [[note]] Slow, agonising but goreless death by a corrosive cursed shirt (victim is carried onstage for a death scene).[[/note]]
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51	[[folder:Level 3]]
52	* ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'' [[note]] Onstage or offstage fatal shooting, depending on the production.[[/note]]
53	* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing.[[/note]]
54	* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' [[note]] An entire scene in which Cyrano is dying of a visible head injury.[[/note]]
55	* ''Theatre/DerFreischutz'' [[note]] Onstage fatal shooting which is completely non-explicit and supernaturally redirected.[[/note]]
56	* ''Theatre/{{Lohengrin}}'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing.[[/note]]
57	* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' [[note]] Onstage shooting, two of which are fatal.[[/note]]
58	* ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' [[note]] Suicide by throat-slitting behind a curtain. If this is done onstage, the opera becomes a 5.[[/note]]
59	* ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'' [[note]] Offstage killing of two children with audible commotion and screams.[[/note]]
60	* ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing during a play-within-a-play.[[/note]]
61	* ''Theatre/ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld'' [[note]] Offstage near-fatal blows with a loy, the victim of which appears onstage visibly wounded.[[/note]]
62	* ''Theatre/ThePlayThatGoesWrong'' [[note]] Onstage slashing after a sword fight (the blood is portrayed comedically), all other violence is merely 1 or 2 in some cases.[[/note]]
63	* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbings.[[/note]]
64	* ''Theatre/TheTempest'' [[note]] Offstage attempted rape in backstory.[[/note]]
65	* ''Theatre/TroilusAndCressida'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing. The script states that the victim of which will be dragged behind a horse after the end of the play; if enacted, this play becomes a 4.[[/note]]
66	* ''Theatre/TheWintersTale'' [[note]] Gruesomely described [[ExitPursuedByABear offstage mauling by a bear]] after said bear has chased the victim off the stage.[[/note]]
67	* ''Theatre/{{The Wizard of Oz\|2011}}'' [[note]] Non-explicit fatal crushing of hitherto unseen character (only a pair of legs visible after the fact); non-explicit and goreless fatal melting with water.[[/note]]
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70	[[folder:Level 4]]
71	* ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}'' [[note]] Onstage murder by multiple stabbings. There is limited evidence in the dialogue (though not the stage directions) for this being a literal cutting of the victim to pieces, which would push this play up to at least a 7 if enacted.[[/note]]
72	* ''Dialogues des Carmélites'' (Poulenc) [[note]]Nuns walk single-file from onstage to behind a curtain, where they are beheaded with an audible guillotine sound.[[/note]]
73	* ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' [[note]] Onstage killing, blood-signing of a contract; offstage drowning of a baby.[[/note]]
74	* ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' [[note]] Onstage murder by multiple stabbings and suicides by sword; offstage tearing apart of a victim and suicide by eating hot coals.[[/note]]
75	* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' [[note]] People being fed to a carnivorous plant. May be a level 5 depending on explicitness.[[/note]]
76	* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' [[note]] Onstage firearm killings; a visibly gravely wounded character.[[/note]]
77	* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' [[note]]Onstage gunshot killing and attempted stabbing of a young child.[[/note]]
78	* ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'' [[note]] Onstage fatal bludgeoning with a club.[[/note]]
79	* ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' [[note]] Onstage fatal smothering and stabbings.[[/note]]
80	* ''Theatre/TheTwoGentlemenOfVerona'' [[note]] An onstage NearRapeExperience.[[/note]]
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83	[[folder:Level 5]]
84	* ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'' [[note]] Onstage attempted suicide by throat-slitting with a razor.[[/note]]
85	* ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'' [[note]] Onstage botched suicide by falling on a sword causing a prolonged death scene, and suicides by snake-bite.[[/note]]
86	* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' [[note]] A character gets shot in the head, and the blood splatters on Kevin Price's shirt.[[/note]]
87	* ''Theatre/DogSeesGod'' [[note]] Forceful breaking of fingers by slamming a piano lid down.[[/note]]
88	* ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing and sexual assault.[[/note]]
89	* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [[note]] Onstage stabbings and poisonings; offstage beheadings (not shown), drowning, and gruesomely-described murder by poison poured in the ear. [[/note]]
90	* ''Theatre/HenryVIPart3'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing of a child (he's stated to be 12, which is historically inaccurate, as his real-life counterpart was 17.)[[/note]]
91	* ''Theatre/TheJewOfMalta'' [[note]] Onstage live boiling in a cauldron and deaths by poisoning.[[/note]]
92	* ''La Juive'' (Fromental Halévy) [[note]] Onstage live boilings in a cauldron.[[/note]]
93	* ''Theatre/LuciaDiLammermoor'' [[note]]A "mad scene" in which the heroine's gown is blood-soaked from killing her new husband; onstage suicide by stabbing.[[/note]]
94	* ''Lulu'' (Alban Berg) [[note]] Onstage shooting, stabbing, and strangulation.[[/note]]
95	* ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' [[note]] Onstage stabbing of a giant serpent, sexual assault, and interrupted suicide; offstage attempted rape.[[/note]]
96	* ''Theatre/PorgyAndBess'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbing with a fish-hook and sexual assault.[[/note]]
97	* ''Theatre/RichardIII'' [[note]] Onstage murder by stabbing and drowning in a barrel of wine; offstage strangulation of two young princes.[[/note]]
98	* ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' [[note]] Heavily implied offstage rape resulting in insanity and domestic violence.[[/note]]
99	* ''Theatre/TristanAndIsolde'' [[note]] Onstage fatal stabbings, one of which causes a prolonged near-death scene, at the end of which the victim tears away the bandages from his wound and dies.[[/note]]
100	* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' [[note]] A 5 for a rape attempt, otherwise 3 for an onstage fatal stabbing and fatal shooting.[[/note]]
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103	[[folder:Level 6]]
104	* ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}'' [[note]] Severed head, and the corresponding body, are brought separately onstage.[[/note]]
105	* ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' [[note]] Onstage pulling off of a leg (fairly non-explicit; the leg instantly grows back); stabbing of an arm and blood-signing of a contract.[[/note]]
106	* ''Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi'' [[note]] Severed hand brought onstage; stabbings and strangulations.[[/note]]
107	* ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'' (Music/BelaBartok) [[note]] Presentation of a bloody torture chamber (which, if made very explicit by the production, may rise to a 7); serial offstage killings in backstory.[[/note]]
108	* ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' [[note]] Sometimes wishy-washy in terms of explicitness, but it does depict murder, torture, dead bodies, discusses and partially depicts death camps, sport murder, people blowing up bridges for fun, and people being burned alive, and has the audience hear/witness a double murder, amongst other things.[[/note]]
109	* ''Theatre/HenryVIPart2'' [[note]] Severed head brought onstage.[[/note]]
110	* ''Theatre/KingJohn'' [[note]] Severed head brought onstage; onstage death by falling from a height; a near-attempt at a gruesome blinding.[[/note]]
111	* ''[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Rocky Horror Show]]'' [[note]] Cannibalism (fairly non-explicit).[[/note]]
112	* ''Theatre/{{Tamburlaine}}'' [[note]] Onstage suicides by braining, fatal throat stabbing, and burning of bodies.[[/note]]
113	* ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' [[note]] Offstage torture; onstage attempted rape (the titular ScarpiaUltimatum); onstage execution by firing squad, stabbing, and suicide by jumping.[[/note]]
114	* ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'' [[note]] Severed head brought onstage; offstage beheading; onstage suicide by stabbing; threat of torture[[/note]]
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117	[[folder:Level 7]]
118	* ''The Changeling'' (Middleton and Rowley) [[note]] Onstage severing of a finger from a freshly-killed corpse and fatal stabbings.[[/note]]
119	* ''The Insatiable Countess'' (John Marston) [[note]] Onstage beheading.[[/note]]
120	* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' [[note]] Severed head brought onstage; onstage murder of a child, Macbeth blood-covered after an offstage killing, visibly bleeding character; offstage bisection.[[/note]]
121	* ''The Massacre at Paris'' (Marlowe) [[note]] Onstage severing of an ear.[[/note]]
122	* ''Theatre/OedipusRex'' [[note]] Offstage self-inflicted eye-gouging, shown afterwards.[[/note]]
123	* ''Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy'' [[note]] Severed head and freshly killed bodies brought onstage; onstage attempt at a braining using aforementioned severed head, stamping on a dying victim, and many fatal stabbings; offstage rape.[[/note]]
124	* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' [[note]] Onstage fatal throat-slashings and rape; offstage cannibalism.[[/note]]
125	* ''Theatre/TisPityShesAWhore'' [[note]] Human heart brought onstage on the end of a sword; onstage fatal stabbings; offstage blinding.[[/note]]
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128	[[folder:Level 8]]
129	* ''Antonio's Revenge'' (John Marston) [[note]] Onstage severing of a tongue and stabbing of a child; a dish of severed human limbs brought onstage.[[/note]]
130	* ''Theatre/EdwardII'' [[note]] Onstage impaling with a red-hot poker.[[/note]]
131	* ''John van Olden Barnavelt'' (John Fletcher) [[note]] Onstage beheading in a guillotine, in which several fingers are simultaneously also mutilated.[[/note]]
132	* ''Theatre/KingLear'' [[note]] A hard 8 due to the explicit onstage eye-gouging, bordering on level 9 if the eyes are then thrown down and trodden upon as the dialogue implies (and some productions do).[[/note]]
133	* ''Theatre/TheSpanishTragedy'' [[note]] Onstage biting off of a tongue.[[/note]]
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136	[[folder:Level 9]]
137	* ''Theatre/PhaedrasLove'' [[note]] Onstage rapes, tearing apart and disembowelment of live victim.[[/note]]
138	* ''Selimus'' (Robert Greene) [[note]] Onstage eye-gouging and severing of hands.[[/note]]
139	* ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' [[note]] Onstage severing of a hand, cutting of throats with ensuing fatal bleeding into a bowl, and cannibalism; offstage gang-rape and severing of hands and tongue, shown afterwards; severed heads brought onstage. [[/note]]
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142	[[folder:Level 10]]
143	* ''Theatre/{{Blasted}}'' [[note]] Onstage rapes, gouging and eating of eyes, cannibalism of a dead baby.[[/note]]
144	* ''Theatre/{{Cleansed}}'' [[note]] Onstage rape with a pole and severing of hands, tongue, and feet; offstage severing of genitals.[[/note]]
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Context MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness / Theatre