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Titus Andronicus: The Oxford ShakespeareTitus Andronicus (The ^AOxford Shakespeare) Reissue Edition

by William Shakespeare (Author), Eugene M. Waith (Editor)
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The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of stage business from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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    7.74 x 0.51 x 6.85 inches
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Eugene M. Waith is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, Yale University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Reissue edition (June 15, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199536104
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199536108
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.74 x 0.51 x 6.85 inches
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other 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 in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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I enjoyed the book. I highly recommend this book to Shakespeare lovers!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A useful and handsome edition of an under-rated classic.
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TITUS ANDRONICUS. Edited by Eugene M. Waith. 226 pp. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1984 and Reprinted.
Hearsay wreaks an incalculable amount of harm in the world, and all of us are, to a greater or lesser extent, its victims. We entertain the most inaccurate opinions about many things of which we have no real knowledge or experience - entire races and nations, individuals, happenings, places, books, etc., - often without either knowing or caring where these opinions came from. And it can be a shock to discover just how wrong we are.
Like almost everyone else, somewhere along the line I picked up the notion that Shakespeare's early tragedy, 'Titus Andronicus,' was a very inferior work and was hardly worth reading. What a jolt I got when, quite by accident, I had a chance to watch the video of TITUS, the recent brilliant adaptation of 'Titus Andronicus' by Julie Taymor in which an even more brilliant Anthony Hopkins plays the leading role.
I don't know how many minutes of viewing it took to reduce my previous 'opinion' to tatters, and it certainly had something to do with the superb acting, the original costumes, the well-designed settings, and Elliot Goldenthal's impressive musical score. And Eugene Waith, in his interesting Introduction to the present edition, does make the point that this is a play which really has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
But apart from enjoying the play as dramatic spectacle, I also found myself greatly enjoying the poetry. No-one would pretend that it reaches the heights of 'Hamlet' or 'King Lear,' but it's very far from the contemptible stuff it's generally reckoned to be.
Who, for example, could forget Hopkins' pacing and shading of Shakespeare's marvelous lines - those, for example, in the kitchen scene - his finding of precisely the right rhythms and emphases and intonations preparatory to his calm gutting of the degenerate and worthless offspring of Tamura : "Come, come, Lavinia ; look, thy foes are bound. . . . O villains, Chiron and Demetrius, / Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud, / This goodly summer with your winter mixed. . . " (5.2.166-71). After this, I just had to read the play, and was lucky to find a bargain copy of the Waith.
The series in which Waith's edition appears, 'The Oxford Shakespeare,' seems to have been designed as a rival or competitor to the well-known Arden series. Both are scholarly editions, although the Oxford seems lighter in its demands on the reader, its spelling has been modernized, and its footnotes are far more concise and much easier to take in. With regard to the latter, The 'Times Literary Supplement' remarked of the Oxford series : "... an unacknowledged genius has solved the problem of printing footnotes so that they can be understood and read with pleasure."
Waith's 69-page Introduction is quite full, and I found his discussions of 'The Play in Performance' and its 'Reception and Interpretation' especially interesting. Personally I think he makes a very good case for considering 'Titus Andronicus' a far more significant work of art than received opinion would have it.
The book is rounded out with five Appendices and an Index, enriched with ten interesting Illustrations including the famous 'Peacham Drawing,' which is given its own 7-page discussion in the Introduction, is beautifully printed on excellent paper, and is also stitched.
As editions of Shakespeare go, the Waith seems to me to strike a nice balance between the needs of the scholar and those of the general reader, and it would make a handsome addition to the bookshelves of either. But whether you get Waith's 'Titus Andronicus' or some other, you ought certainly to read this play, though not perhaps until after having listened to a recording of a good production or seen Anthony Hopkin's marvelous TITUS. I think if you do you may find yourself changing your opinion of 'Titus Andronicus' too.
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Beware of the Oxford World Classic editions. This is advertised as a 2008 publication when in fact it’s a reissue of the 1984 edition with new cover art. I was looking for a more modern analysis and commentary and was very disappointed to discover that it’s actually 36 years old.
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I think these editions are very nice if you have to study Shakespeare's plays for university, with long introductions and good explanatory notes. Also, the book arrived in perfect condition.
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I'mnot exactly a Shakespeare buff, but after reading Titus I got way more into him. The play tells the story of a Roman general who retruns to his beloved city a war hero, having in his captivity the queen of the Goths, Tamora. What follows is a series of various conflicts, mainly based around avenging wrongs done to familmembers,which in turn provoke more extreme responses. Certainly one of Shakespeare's most violent and blooody plays, Titus involves rape, severe mutilation like something out of a Saw movie, and a particularly murderous final act. The language is in Shakespeare's usual eloqent style, but I didn't finish it with certain parts of dialogue sticking in my mind, like some of his other iconic plays have. Titus is much more about the visuals, with unparallel onstage violence. Yet the audience can still relate to characters who perform the horrific acts upon one another, making it one of Shakespeare's best psychological plays, as each character has a complex mentality and the audience may find themselves easily to empathise even with the villainous characters. It also contains one of the most purely evil antagonists in literature, whose only regret at the end was that he could have done much worse. As Shakespeare's plays are either comedies or tragedies, and this one sure as hell ain't a comedy, you know exactly where it's heading, but the road it takes you down to get there is a darkly compelling one. I read the Oxford version of this, which has excellent notes at the bottom of each page on how to read and perform the play, so I would recommend anyone interested to get the Oxford version. To sum up, it is a masterful play of visual intrigue which pushes the very boundaries of theatre, and sticks two fingers up to the stereotype of everyone dying offstage and being carried back on. If you like Shakespeare, or even just reading, try Titus.
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This is a nice, small sized book with a matte finish cover that feels high quality. It will come in very handy for carrying to classes and revision sessions.

I bought this for my open book exam, so I wish I had read a bit more into the details of this book as it has a large introduction section that might render it useless if I am now allowed to take it in! But other than that, the pages feel high quality and it's a good book for annotating in as the pen doesn't go through to the other side, which can be distracting.
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