 Andrugio, like the ghosts of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy," personifies the period of unrest between death and interment, sometimes interpreted as an allusion to Catholic purgatory.The play is also fraught with physical violence, including the display of Feliche's mutilated body, the strangulation of Strotzo, the murder of the child Julio and subsequent revelation of his body at the banquet table, and the forcible removal of Piero's tongue.Piero makes his first entrance with "his arms bare, smeared in blood, a poniard in one hand bloody, and a torch in the other" (1.1, s.d.)