Titus Andronicus: Revised Edition (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) - Hardcover

Jonathan Bate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350030902 ISBN 13: 9781350030909

Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018

Synopsis

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultaneously shocking and playful approach to violent revenge and bodily mutilation. Jonathan Bate's original Arden edition was first published in 1995 and has had a significant influence on how the play has been performed and studied in the past 20 years. This revised edition includes a new 10,000 word introductory essay in which Bate reassess his views on the play's co-authorship with George Peele in the light of contemporary textual scholarship and updates his lively account of the play's performance history, on the international stage and screen. With detailed on-page commentary notes this will continue to be the edition of choice for students, scholars and theatre-makers.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Bate is Professor of Literature and Provost of Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1350030902
• ISBN 13: 9781350030909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352