This tragedy of a Roman military and political leader is in keeping with the violent revenge dramas fashionable in Shakespeare's day, encompassing horrifying incidents of rape, murder, and mutilation.
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus was the young Shakespeare's audacious, sporadically brilliant experiment in sensational tragedy. Its horrors are notorious, but its powerful poetry of grief is the work of a true tragic...
A pioneering study by Philip Timberlake, long ignored by mainstream scholarship, revealed the huge difference in the number of lines with feminine endings ...
Each volume in the Shakespeare in Performance series analyzes a particular play, choosing for detailed discussion a small number of stage productions which seem to throw the most light on...
Titus Andronicus
This book is a modern translation of Titus Andronicus.The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text.We all need refreshers every now and then.
Biographical information, critical essays, commentary, critical studies, and production histories accompany Shakespeare's two plays concerning misguided actions and ingratitude--TItus Andronicus and Timon of Athens. Reprint.
Originally published in 1995. In three parts – introduction, criticism and reviews – this volume examines the goriest of Shakespeare’s works.
Alan Hughes joins those critics who take the play seriously, arguing for its unity of theme and tone and its grim humour; this is the work of a brilliant stage craftsman, confident in his handling of space, movement, and verse.
Titus Andronicus