Titus AndronicusPenguin, 2001 - 246 стор. Shakespeare's most violent and gory play, Titus Andronicus was written in 1592, and represents the dramatist's first foray into the popular genre of revenge tragedy (many editors argue with at least one other collaborator). The result was spectacular, including scenes of murder, human sacrifice, rape, bodily mutilation and cannibalism. Set in late-imperial Rome, the action begins with the Roman general Titus Andronicus and his triumphant return from wars with the Goths. Leading Queen Tamora and her sons as prisoners, Titus stumbles into a power struggle between Saturninus and his brother Bassianus. Titus fatally backs Saturninus, who rapidly turns on the old general and marries Tamora. The implications for the Andronicus family are disastrous. More of Titus' sons are killed, his daughter Lavinia is brutally raped by Tamora's sons, and as Titus begins his descent into madness and despair he even has his own hand cut off in an act of awful trickery. As Titus plots his bloody revenge, he reflects that "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers". The ending is one of the most gruesome conclusions to any dramatic tragedy, and leaves Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs looking quite restrained. Although the play has put audiences off for centuries due to its apparently gratuitous violence, more recently critics have discerned something more to it than pure shock, but that might say more about us than the Elizabethans. |
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... edition ( 1984 ) and Alan Hughes's New Cambridge edition ( 1994 ) . These provide substantial introductions to the stage history and critical reception of the play . Jonathan Bate's edition ( 1995 ) in the Third Series of Arden replaces ...
... edition ( 1984 ) and Alan Hughes's New Cambridge edition ( 1994 ) . These provide substantial introductions to the stage history and critical reception of the play . Jonathan Bate's edition ( 1995 ) in the Third Series of Arden replaces ...
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... edition ( QI ) printed by John Danter . This is almost certainly the ' booke intituled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus ' entered in the Stationers ' Register by Danter on 6 February 1594 . There is no reason to doubt that ...
... edition ( QI ) printed by John Danter . This is almost certainly the ' booke intituled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus ' entered in the Stationers ' Register by Danter on 6 February 1594 . There is no reason to doubt that ...
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... edition of Titus Andronicus ( third series ) and the innovative edition of Titus Andronicus included in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor's William Shakespeare : Complete Works have proved par- ticularly useful as a source of extensive new ...
... edition of Titus Andronicus ( third series ) and the innovative edition of Titus Andronicus included in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor's William Shakespeare : Complete Works have proved par- ticularly useful as a source of extensive new ...
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INTRODUCTION | 7 |
FURTHER READING | 59 |
COMMENTARY | 169 |
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