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Immensely popular in Shakespeare's lifetime and immensely unpopular afterwards, Titus Andronicus has only come into its own in recent years. Alan Hughes's edition, which first appeared in 1994, is one of the best, clearest and least cluttered in the New Cambridge series, and this updated version, with a new essay by Sue Hall-Smith on recent stage and film productions, does nothing to lessen its usefulness.

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