Titus Andronicus - Brossura

Shakespeare, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486796973 ISBN 13: 9780486796970

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2015

Riassunto

Set amid the latter days of the Roman Empire, this tragedy of a military and political leader bent on vengeance is fictional rather than historical. Shakespeare modeled the play on the violent and gory revenge dramas fashionable among his contemporaries, and the plot encompasses horrifying incidents of rape, murder, and mutilation.

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L'autore:

"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.

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A triumphant general returns to Rome from a war against the Goths and descends into a vicious circle of revenge by refusing to show mercy to his conquered enemy. Blood begets more blood inTitus Andronicus, a fictional drama drawn from a tale by Ovid. Shakespeare styled this early play in the manner of a "revenge tragedy," a genre rooted in classical theater and enormously successful with Elizabethan audiences. Enacting grotesque incidents of rape, murder, and mutilation, this daringly experimental play explores the nature of justice and vengeance.
Critical judgment of the drama ranges from dismissal as a panderer's concession to a bloodthirsty mob to praise as a skillful treatment of theatrical violence that examines suffering through the experience of art. Shakespeare's memorable tragedy questions whether revenge is ever justifiable, and its analysis of moral and political issues?betrayal, familial loyalties, sexual violence, nationalism, racism?remains ever relevant.
Dover (2015) republication of the edition originally published by the Caxton Publishing Company, London.
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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0486796973
• ISBN 13: 9780486796970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 81