Titus Andronicus : the state of play / edited by Farah Karim-Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karim-Cooper, Farah, editor.

Series:

Arden Shakespeare state of play series.

Arden Shakespeare The State of Play

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Troilus and Cressida--Criticism, Textual.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2019.

Summary:

"Shakespeare's and Peele's Titus Andronicus has had a theatrical and a critical revival in the last fifteen years; the critical revival was perhaps prompted by Jonathan Bate's Arden edition of the play and its revision of the traditional critical account that it is an immature work and overly sensationalistic with its emphasis on non-essential violence. Recent debates and approaches have drawn closer attention to the play's classicism; re-defined its genre (for example the revised edition of the New Dramatic Sources will re-classify the play as one of Shakespeare's Roman plays); re-considered the nature of violent spectacle, family relations and kinship, political alliance, race and miscegenation. This study will explore how the revitalized critical responses to early modern and contemporary performance histories has had a significant impact upon the wider reception of this play."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of illustrations List of contributors Series preface

Introduction

Part 1: Genre, style and sources 1. Senecan belatedness and Titus Andronicus 2. Titus Andronicus: Elizabethan classicism and the styles of new tragedy 3. Soliloquies in Titus Andronicus: An Empirical Approach

Part 2: Critical approaches: Race, culture and politics 4. "I have done thy mother": Racial and sexual geographies in Titus Andronicus 5. Remixing the family: Blackness and domesticity in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus 6. 'If I might have my will': Aaaron's affect and race in Titus Andronicus

Part 3: Critical approaches: Bodies, emotions and metaphor 7. Metaphorically speaking: Titus Andronicus and the limits of utterance 8. Granular reading: Texture, language and surface marks in Titus Andronicus

Part 4: Performance and adaptation 9. 'Did you see that?!': Titus Andronicus and theatrical transgression 10. In/di/gestion: Seneca

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>South Park 11. 'My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth': Framing, feasting and speaking sexual violence in Titus Andronicus, 2006-2017

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-02742-1

1-350-02741-3

1-350-02740-5

OCLC:

1083205354