William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

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Produktbeschreibung

This updated edition of Titus Andronicus includes a section on recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Sue Hall-Smith. The text is based on the first quarto, supplemented by crucial additions and stage directions from the Folio. Appendices explore how the play might have been performed at the Rose playhouse in London, and how it could be adapted for a touring company of fourteen men and boys. An updated reading list completes the edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780521857086
• ISBN-10: 0521857082
• Artikelnr.: 22269084

Autorenporträt

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

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Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: Date
Sources
Authorship
Early stage history
The Longleat manuscript
From the Restoration to the nineteenth century
Twentieth-century performance and criticism
Recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Sue Hall-Smith
Note on the text
List of characters
The Play
Textual analysis
Appendix 1. Titus Andronicus at the Rose
Appendix 2. Performance by a small company
Reading list.