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Titus Andronicus: The Oxford Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Description for Titus Andronicus: The Oxford Shakespeare
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 256.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536108
SKU
V9780199536108
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About William Shakespeare
Eugene M. Waith is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, Yale University.
Reviews for Titus Andronicus: The Oxford Shakespeare
`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 ... Read more