The Oxford Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of...
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The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of stage business from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199536108 (0199536104)
ASIN: 199536104
Publish date: May 8th 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
This is one of Shakespeare's less known plays although it should not be. It is good and perhaps in the best half or so of his plays, but the reason I think that it is not so well known is because it is a complete gore fest. The first half of the book reads more like a horror story than a drama whe...
Why does everyone hate on Titus? Really, it is no less ridiculous than Romeo and Juliet.
This is certainly the goriest of Shakespeare plays that I have read. By the third act, I was reading only to see Titus avenged and I was not disappointed. This particular edition features an extensive 75-page introduction and comes with the history and the ballad that are related to this play (which...
What a bloodbath! My friend warned me about this play but I wasn't prepared for the carnage I witnessed, right from the first scene.This is so much more tragic than Hamlet. There were so many despicable characters too, especially Tamora, Queen of the Goths. Must have been difficult to act this play ...
Brutal. If this wasn't one of Shakespeare's plays, written in Elizabethan English, you'd swear it was a script for an Eli Roth splatter film.