...Within the sum of William Shakespeare’s drama, a specific material book appears in only two plays, Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline. In both plays it is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the text is the rape of Philomel. Ostensibly, Metamorphoses...

... 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...

...This chapter provides a comparison of Richard III and Titus Andronicus. Both Titus and Richard III have at their centre an elaborated picture of tyranny. While Titus comes off as a revenge tragedy, it also features...

.... Richard III is a portrait of a sociopathic personality who kills everyone on his path to the throne. King Lear Hamlet Richard III Romeo and Juliet Othello Titus Andronicus Measure for Measure Othello syndrome narcissistic personality disorder paranoia Comedy of Errors The Shakespeare...

...This chapter focuses on the play “Titus Andronicus,” which is considered not merely a revenge tragedy. It explains how Titus is suffused with evocations and references to the Aeneid and central elements in the plot that are taken from Ovid. It also mentions how Titus was described as a “noble Roman...

... discusses how the play “Titus Andronicus” presented the impulses that lie behind aims that are quintessentially “feminine.” evil counsel Titus Andronicus tyranny Troy infanticide Marlowe Christopher Shakespeare William Atheism devil the repentance Allen William cardinal Bacon Nathaniel Cecil...

... of the Bacchantes—make this violence abundantly clear. The chapter then presents the fragmented pieces of the Orpheus myth in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (1594) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) which designate the scattering of Ovid's Orpheus as the transmission of poetry...

... 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...

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...This chapter discusses two plays, Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus, and their link to open selfhood. It first presents an alternative in which Coriolanus is a progressive document that plans the transition from models of complete sovereignty...

... concludes with close readings from Hamlet and Titus Andronicus to consider what is inherited and retained rather than discarded. Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream comedy English medieval Pyramus A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare William Theseus A Midsummer Night’s...

... innovation of his tragedies. Five aspects of this rhetoric of grief are addressed in turn by means of examples drawn from Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet, and the Quarto Lear: that is, (1) the lament as grandiloquent set speech developing conventions from Seneca...

... into a particularly attractive-though-abject object of appropriation in which a web of common metaphors and intertexts engenders a particular kind of serialization. In the Shakespearean canon, Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus are autonomous plays unconnected by either historical event...

...), then we should be looking for ways in which the production and understanding of works of imagination contribute to human flourishing. The grotesque forms that make revenge drama perennially popular provide examples. In early modern London revenge tragedies like Hamlet, Titus Andronicus...

...Female revengers feature in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, and George Chapman’s The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois. Rather than pursuing vengeance by proxy these women become the active agents of their own revenge...

..., bifurcate in English revenge tragedy. Pitiful, mourning mothers such as Isabella from Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy are unsuccessful, while savage ones, such as Tamora from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Queen Margaret in Shakespeare’s Henry VI...

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... Yelverton Henry mimesis New Comedy tokens Sidney Sir Philip Foxe John jury Foucault witness proof evidence probability suspicion Justice of Peace Shakespeare Titus Andronicus For the whole of the first chapter, nothing was said about Michel Foucault's highly influential genealogy of modern...

...In three revenge tragedies, The Spanish Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet, the body of the protagonist enacts the pain of moral imbalance. Each plot leads to tragedy because the violence does not restore balance. The varieties of bodily pain...