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Titus Andronicus: Arden Shakespeare - Community Reviews back

by Jonathan Bate, William Shakespeare
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I'm Reading...
I'm Reading... rated it 14 years ago
Some other thoughts/reviews:Hannah Ackroyd: http://hannahackroyd.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/titus-andronicus-by-william-shakespeare-a-review/
Bibliophilic Monologues
Bibliophilic Monologues rated it 14 years ago
How do you rate something written by Shakespeare? So I choose not to. But damn it if it wasn't depressing.
The Moth Eaten Shelf
The Moth Eaten Shelf rated it 15 years ago
Never get involved in Roman politics.
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it 15 years ago
I know it's not his best, and it's not as much fun as Tamburlaine, the Marlowe play Shakespeare was ripping off, but I have a soft spot for it.
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 15 years ago
Titus Andronicus is a very bloody play, perhaps the bloodiest in the Shakespearean canon, therefore, it was fitting that the Reduced Shakespeare Company presented it as a cooking show. Titus exists in a tradition. It is not a drop more bloody than Marlowe’s Tamburlaine. Titus is very simply a rev...
Book Addled
Book Addled rated it 15 years ago
Think Quentin Tarantino and Kill Bill: Vol. 2. Screw Hamlet’s anguished indecision, Macbeth’s squeamishness, Lear’s wails in the wilderness, or Lady Macbeth’s protracted guilt. This is Shakespeare’s action adventure, where characters act seemingly on impulse, and no deed is too terrible to contempla...
spocksbro
spocksbro rated it 16 years ago
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest tragedies. A detail that comes through in many aspects of the play, particularly its over-the-top, in-your-face violence. Little is left to the audience's imagination except for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia and the execution of Quintus and Mart...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 23 years ago
The darkest, twistiest tale ever told. More pie?
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 25 years ago
kindleaholic
kindleaholic rated it 28 years ago
This one was just too gory for me. Too many horrific things happen to all of the characters - rape, murder, cannibalism.
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