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Titus Andronicus: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Oxford Shakespearetitus Andronicus Paperback – 8 May 2008

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Titus Andronicus was the young Shakespeare's audacious, sporadically brilliant experiment in sensational tragedy. Its horrors are notorious, but its powerful poetry of grief is the work of a true tragic poet. Introducing this edition, E.M. Waith provides a fresh view of the play in its historical context as well as an original discussion of the famous `Peacham' drawing - the only surviving contemporary Shakespeare illustration. An illustrated account of performances, notably Peter Brook's production with Oliver as Titus, leads to an assessment of the play's qualities in the light of its critical reception. The eighteenth-century version of the play's probable source is given in one of the appendices. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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    19.66 x 1.3 x 17.4 cm
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`sound and often admirable piece of scholarship. It deals judiciously with the problems of text, authorship and sources, and with the business of clearly and concisely annotating the text' Emrys Jones, Literary Review

'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.' The Oxford Times

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`sound and often admirable piece of scholarship. It deals judiciously with the problems of text, authorship and sources, and with the business of clearly and concisely annotating the text' Emrys Jones, Literary Review 'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.' The Oxford Times

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press UK; Reissue edition (8 May 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199536104
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199536108
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.66 x 1.3 x 17.4 cm
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Ilse
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I think these editions are very nice if you have to study Shakespeare's plays for university, with long introductions and good explanatory notes. Also, the book arrived in perfect condition.
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I'mnot exactly a Shakespeare buff, but after reading Titus I got way more into him. The play tells the story of a Roman general who retruns to his beloved city a war hero, having in his captivity the queen of the Goths, Tamora. What follows is a series of various conflicts, mainly based around avenging wrongs done to familmembers,which in turn provoke more extreme responses. Certainly one of Shakespeare's most violent and blooody plays, Titus involves rape, severe mutilation like something out of a Saw movie, and a particularly murderous final act. The language is in Shakespeare's usual eloqent style, but I didn't finish it with certain parts of dialogue sticking in my mind, like some of his other iconic plays have. Titus is much more about the visuals, with unparallel onstage violence. Yet the audience can still relate to characters who perform the horrific acts upon one another, making it one of Shakespeare's best psychological plays, as each character has a complex mentality and the audience may find themselves easily to empathise even with the villainous characters. It also contains one of the most purely evil antagonists in literature, whose only regret at the end was that he could have done much worse. As Shakespeare's plays are either comedies or tragedies, and this one sure as hell ain't a comedy, you know exactly where it's heading, but the road it takes you down to get there is a darkly compelling one. I read the Oxford version of this, which has excellent notes at the bottom of each page on how to read and perform the play, so I would recommend anyone interested to get the Oxford version. To sum up, it is a masterful play of visual intrigue which pushes the very boundaries of theatre, and sticks two fingers up to the stereotype of everyone dying offstage and being carried back on. If you like Shakespeare, or even just reading, try Titus.
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