Christopher Titus

Visuals and the Violated: Women in Julie Taymor’s Titus Up until the past few decades, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus was never taken seriously by critics or audiences. As a revenge tragedy set in ancient Rome, the story is one of never-ending, over the top violence, which viewers may find hard to sit through without rolling their eyes, or at least becoming entirely desensitized. When Julie Taymor created the film version of this text, Titus, in 1999, she attempted to utilize visual…

Andronicus enters, saying that the citizens should choose Titus Andronicus, his brother. Titus, a Roman general, arrives at Rome, returning from a war with the Goths, a tribe of East Germanic people. He has captured Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her three sons, Alburus, Demetrius, and Chiron, and Aaron the Moor, her lover. He has some of followers bring in a black coffin filled with his family’s remains. At this point, twenty-one out of Titus’ twenty-five sons have passed due to the war between…

which takes place in book six of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In this paper, I will have two main points that show the similarities between Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare and Metamorphoses by Ovid. The first main point will be…

addition, Titus Andronicus due to a cyclical form of retaliation, the text complies to the concept of retributive justice as each character ultimately receives a punishment that is adequate to the severity of their crimes. To begin, Roman “soldier [of] forty years” (1.1.196), Titus is initially depicted as a “cruel, irreligious piety” (1.1.133) as he is “unkind” (1.1.89) signifying he is “lacking in kindness or kindly feeling; [or] acting harshly or urgently” (OED 6a). I believe Titus must be…

Annotated Bibliography Working Thesis: In the complex and intertwined themes of the revenge tragedy, Hamlet, William Shakespeare effectively expresses what it means to be human through Hamlet’s struggle to explore the human conditions of mortality, deception and morality, social expectations, and contemplation versus impulsive actions. MacNamara, Vincent. “The Human Condition.” The Call to be Human: Making Sense of Morality. Dublin, Veritas: 2010. 44–61. Print. The chapter “The Human Condition”…

defined through violence in both Ovid’s The Tale of Philomela and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus . Violence is not used here as a single broad term, for in both texts there is clear delineation between masculine and feminine violence, and again between honourable and dishonourable violence. To quote Jessica Lugo, “Shakespeare’s Ovidian precursor delivers a tale of gore that develops the themes of barbarism and silence. In Titus, Shakespeare roots out the essence of Ovid’s characters, exposes…

In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the title character Hamlet’s mind is violently pulled in divergent directions about the morals of murder. He feels an obligation to avenge his father’s death and thinks that it may be excused, since it is a case of “an eye of an eye.” But he is conflicted because the Bible has also taught him that murder is a sin and revenge should be left to God. Hamlet’s struggle to interpret this moral dilemma and his indecision together, are the ultimate cause of…

atmospheres. Any sign of disobedience to these norms was seen as a crime against the holy establishments ordained by God, since the church constantly reinforced this idea by using the Bible as a justification to their rules. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Titus Andronicus is a presentation that fundamentally challenged the pre-conceived notion that women were no more valuable than…

INTRODUCTION: HISTORY: Titus Andronicus is assumed to be written in late 1593. The first recorded performance of the play was very early in 1594. There is said to be 3 different versions of the play. It is known for being one of shakespeare's most aw William Shakespeare was a famous playwright in the Elizabethan Age. He wrote many plays including Titus Andronicus. It is one of shakespeare's very first works, and one of his most hated, for being gory, intense, and disturbing. CHARACTERS: Titus…

Director’s Notebook Titus Andronicus - by William Shakespeare Contents: A brief summary of the play - Page 1 The play text, its context and the ideas represented in the play - Page 1 My artistic responses, creative ideas and explanations of live theatre as a director - page 2 My directorial intentions and the intended impact on an audience - 7 How i would stage the two moments of the play - 8 Bibliography - 13  Summary Titus Andronicus is a story of the vengeful. It…