...This chapter discusses the popular discourse of blackness in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England to contextualize the playing of Shakespeare's first Moor, Aaron in Titus Andronicus. It then moves forward in time to the acting of Caliban in The Tempest...

... as a printed book was, theatrically considered, an assemblage of part-scripts and cues that recycled bits and pieces from across the repertory of the commercial theaters. Through a reading of Hamlet (1603) and the Roman tragedies, notably Titus Andronicus (1594...

... reckonings of life and its promise in governable futures, which some refer to as biopolitics. Through readings of The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus the chapter explores how what kind of life women and children constitute at the ambiguous juncture of sovereignty and governmentality and in a paradoxical...

... to the people as a political unit. Titus Andronicus reveals life in its magnitude as death-soaked, in the manner of revenge tragedies, but also, and more potently, the multiplicity of life appears as blight registered through negative enumeration in the urban tomb that is Rome. Julius Caesar and Coriolanus...