Titus Andronicus

by Shakespeare, William; Waith, Eugene M.

• ISBN13: 9780192836106
• ISBN10: 0192836102
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-28
• 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 stagebusiness from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
What We Know up to 1623	2	(2)
Date	4	(7)
Authorship	11	(9)
The Peacham Drawing	20	(7)
Sources	27	(12)
Text	39	(4)
The Play in Performance	43	(15)
Reception and Interpretation	58	(13)
Editorial Procedures	71	(8)
Abbreviations and References	73	(6)
TITUS ANDRONICUS	79	(116)
Appendix A The Prose History of Titus Andronicus	195	(9)
Appendix B The Ballad of Titus Andronicus	204	(4)
Appendix C The Crimes against the Andronici	208	(2)
Appendix D Marco Mincoff's Statements on Sources	210	(1)
Appendix E The False Start in 4.3	211	(2)
Appendix F Copyright	213	(3)
Appendix G Possible Allocation of Roles among Twenty-seven Actors	216	(3)
Index	219