Titus Andronicus

introduction, the play in performance and commentary by Jacques Berthoud The new Penguin Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

182 pages

English language

Published Dec. 7, 2001 by Penguin.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-101966-6
OCLC Number:: 261894460

(15 reviews)

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It's bloody awful, in my opinion. And awful bloody, as a matter of fact. I'd always assumed that it was the first play that he'd written, and that its excesses were just his feeling his way to becoming a playwright. But now they think that several other 'better' plays preceded it. So, what's with this play? Was he just pandering to public opinion, piling up more gore and blood than any of his contemporaries had been able to? Dialing it up to 11, so to speak. Or maybe that's it. Maybe it was never meant to be taken seriously, but was only a parody of the revenge tragedy.