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"Titus Andronicus" (Penguin Shakespeare) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jacques Berthoud, William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 358211
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0141019662
EAN: 9780141019666
ASIN: 0141019662
Publication Date: September 29, 2005
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Give Titus A Chance June 25, 2006
Waldo Lives (Worcester UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After seeing this play on stage in Stratford as part of their Complete Works Festival, I can say that this play has been the best theatre experience I have had. I do not understand how or why critics and academics over the ages have slated this piece whilst lauding inpenetrable plays as works of genius. Deservedly, the play is having somewhat of a comeback as it is also playing in the Globe in London, and it is deserved. I saw the 1999 film "Titus" and hated it, I had to watch it on fast forward, but seeing the play in it's full force, has made me re-evaluate this play, and a wonderful work it is. Buy it, see it or act in it, but ignore those that dismiss it as early Shakespearian gore, and look beyond that to see the aching sadness and injustness and love in this play.
A Neglected Masterpiece March 24, 2006
Iain M. C. Mcclure (uk)
Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's neglected masterpiece. This play usually gets dismissed because of its hyperbolic imitation of the gore and horror of Senecan tragedy, but there is so much more to the play than 16th century Grand Guignol. The poetry of this early Shakespearean tragedy is muscular and sensuous - it should be seen as a forerunner to the kind of stately, opulent verse we see in Antony & Cleopatra. The depiction of the madness of Titus is wonderfully convincing and is clearly a precursor to Hamlet and Macbeth. (You can get a real sense of the savage grandeur of this role in Anthony Hopkins' performance in the Julie Taymor film version if you remain unconvinced.) The anti-hero Aaron is also a superbly realised figure - one who excites loathing and sympathy in equal measure. The violence is, of course, integral to the play; indeed, the entire drama is a meditation upon the nature of violence. This play is not cruel; it is about the nature of cruelty. Its most winning quality is, however, the deliciously dark humour that pervades the proceedings. It is a rich, strange and wonderful piece of work.
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