Benedict Nightingale of " The Times ", for example, asked " is it enough to suggest bloodletting by having red ribbons flow from wrists and throats ? " Similarly, " The Guardian " s Michael Billington, who had praised Bailey's use of realistic effects, wrote " At times I felt that Ninagawa, through stylised images and Handelian music, unduly aestheticised violence . " Some critics, however, felt the stylisation was more powerful than Bailey's realism; Neil Allan and Scott Revers of " Cahiers �lisab�thains ", for example, wrote " Blood itself was denoted by spools of red thread spilling from garments, limbs and Lavinia's mouth.
