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.
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List of illustrationsList of contributorsSeries prefaceIntroduction, Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe, UK)Part 1: Genre, style and sources1. Senecan belatedness and Titus Andronicus, Curtis Perry (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)2. Titus Andronicus: Elizabethan Classicism and the Styles of New Tragedy, Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada)3. Soliloquies in Titus Andronicus: An Empirical Approach, James Hirsh (Georgia State University, USA)Part 2: Critical approaches: Race, culture and politics4. “I have done thy mother”: Racial and sexual geographies in Titus Andronicus, John Kunat (Sonoma State University, USA)5. Remixing the family: Blackness and domesticity in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, David Sterling Brown (Binghampton Universty, SUNY, USA)6. 'If I might have my will': Aaaron's affect and race in Titus Andronicus, Carol Mejia LaPerle (Wright State University, USA)Part 3: Critical approaches: Bodies, emotions and metaphor7. Metaphorically Speaking: Titus Andronicus and the Limits of Utterance, Jennifer Edwards (Shakespeare's Globe, UK)8. Granular Reading: Texture, Language and Surface Marks in Titus Andronicus, Whitney Sperrazza (University of Kansas, USA)Part 4: Performance and adaptation9. 'Did you see that?!': Titus Andronicus and Theatrical Transgression, Ralph Alan Cohen (Mary Baldwin University, USA)10. In/di/gestion: Seneca-->Shakespeare-->South Park, Lizz Angello (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA)11. 'My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth': Framing, Feasting and Speaking Sexual Violence in Titus Andronicus, 2006-2017, Emma Whipday (University of Newcastle, UK) NotesIndex
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A volume of new essays from leading international scholars that showcases current critical approaches to Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy.
A collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars on an increasingly studied play
Each volume in the series is an expedition to discover the ‘state of play’ with respect to Shakespeare’s major plays. Featuring ten or more newly commissioned essays written by world-class Shakespeareans, each volume presents a detailed engagement with a single play, focusing on current issues in teaching, performance and research.
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ISBN
9781350027398
Publisert
2019-02-07
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The Arden Shakespeare
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417 gr
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198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
296
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