Film Presentation
Term One
NB The film presentation of Titus Andronicus will take place at 5.00 on Tuesday, 8 October in R0.03 in the Ramphal Building. All students are expected to attend this.
Term Two
NB The film presentation of Titus Andronicus will take place at 5.00 on Thursday, 16 January in R0.04 in the Ramphal Building. All students are expected to attend this.
Films
Titus, director Julie Taymor (1999)
*Titus Andronicus, director Lucy Bailey (2015)
Reading
Foakes, R. A., Shakespeare and Violence (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 53-60.
Friedman, Michael D. with Alan C. Dessen, Titus Andronicus, 2nd ed. (Manchester, 2013), Chapter Four: Julie Taymor: 1994 and 1999.
Innes, Paul, 'Titus Andronicus and the Violence of Tragedy', Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies 1/1 (2012), 27-48.
Kolin, Philip C., Titus Andronicus: Critical Essays (Abingdon,1995)
Marshall, Cynthia, The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts (Baltimore, 2002), pp. 106-37, 181-86 ['The Pornographic Economy of Titus Andronicus']
Shakespeare, William, Titus Andronicus, ed. Jonathan Bate (London, 2015)
Waldron, Jennifer, Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater (Houndmills, 2014)