Titus Andronicus The Oxford Shakespeare Titus Andronicus

by Shakespeare, William; Waith, Eugene M.

• ISBN13: 9780198129028
• ISBN10: 0198129025
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-07-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
What We Know up to 1623	p. 2
Date	p. 4
Authorship	p. 11
The Peacham Drawing	p. 20
Sources	p. 27
Text	p. 39
The Play in Performance	p. 43
Reception and Interpretation	p. 58
Editorial Procedures	p. 71
Abbreviations and References	p. 73
Titus Andronicus	p. 79
The Prose History of Titus Andronicus	p. 195
The Ballad of Titus Andronicus	p. 204
The Crimes against the Andronici	p. 208
Marco Mincoff's Statements on Sources	p. 210
The False Start in 4.3	p. 211
Copyright	p. 213
Possible Allocation of Roles among Twenty-seven Actors	p. 216
Index	p. 219
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