Truewit's Violent Entertainment

Truewit is the master entertainer in Epicoene.  But it is worth exploring his means of and subject matter for entertaining his peers on stage as well as the audience.  Truewit's highest moments of comedy, and indeed most of his speech, liberally reference and/or enact violent scenes.  For example, his "playful" conversation with Morose in 3.5 during which they discuss what manner of revenge to have on Cutbeard, is a dizzying volley of ill-wishing.  It begins simply enough with a curse for the plague, but then advances very quickly from physical ailments to economic hardship to metaphysical damnation to loss of reputation and finally to accidental murder resulting in being hanged.  Over the course of this parade of vengeful thoughts, Morose gets carried away in Truewit's fantastical imaginations more than once.  Along the way, the audience also gets carried away and by the end, Truewit finds it difficult to stop.  It is not simply the style in which the conversation is versed, but also the gruesomeness of the images brought forth that is entertaining -- for Truewit (he very obviously enjoys speaking of these things) and for the audience (by the end we want Truewit to keep going, to see how much farther he can stretch, how much more grotesque he can be).  This scene, combined with all of 4.5 (the scene in which he humiliates Daw and LaFoole by having them beaten), reveal Truewit as a man who entertains through violence.  And, perhaps more intriguingly, who intuits that his audience (both on stage and off) thoroughly enjoy this kind of entertainment.  Given what we know about the dual use of theaters for plays and bear-baiting, is Jonson using Truewit simply as a distraction away from the plot of the title character or is he saying something to and ABOUT his audience and their fascination for violence?  Furthermore, how does Truewit's speech at 4.1.67-121 (his theory about women and "acceptable violence") complicate the question?