Titus Andronicus: The Oxford Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-953610-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

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.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Shakespeare, William

Waith, Eugene M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

Eugene M. Waith is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, Yale University.