Mr. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. There ought to be a Censorship of Books. . . . Ogilvy pursued his own topic. I'm inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a matter of fact it was the expurgated Romeo and Juliet did the mischief. . . . All they left it was the moon and stars. And the balcony and ‘My Romeo!’ Shakespeare is altogether different from the modern stuff. Altogether different. I'm not discussing Shakespeare. I don't want to Bowdlerize Shakespeare.

The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.]

The cook Sicon and slave Getas reprise the earlier scene where they came calling to ask for materials and were sent packing.

Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore