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  <title><![CDATA[Titus Andronicus (Folger Shakespeare Library)]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Revenge. <br/><br/>Next to topiary design and bottle cap collecting, it's one of the best hobbies I can think of.  Sure, those puffed-up self-actualized types will feed you the standard-issue anti-revenge propaganda.  Confucius, for instance, once said, &quot;Before you embark upon a journey of re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38768995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am going to write my review of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18135.Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>’s <em>Titus Andronicus</em> with only a reader’s response critique, because it actually seems like the most powerful type I can offer.  <br/><br/>My first response when reading the play was to think that it wasn’t Shakespeare.  (The origins of some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13354818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I take a cue from Harold Bloom, who said Titus Andronicus should not be taken seriously at all, and would make the smoothest transition to film if directed by Mel Brooks.  It is pure insanity, absolutely rip-roaring, inconceivable madness.  Take Popeye (Titus):<br/><br/><img src="http://savasplace.com/content/files/Image/blog_posts/Popeye.jpg" width="250" height="300" class="escapedImg"/> <br/><br/>and his arch-n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39573443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[During one of my routine trawls through IMDB, I stumbled across the movie poster for <em>Titus</em> and knew right then this was going to be the next play I read in my attempt to get through my Complete W.S.  This poster was scary intense - it features a soulless-looking Anthony Hopkins painted up in woad an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29984646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23336453">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Titus Andronicus</em> is one of Shakespeare's earliest tragedies. A detail that comes through in many aspects of the play, particularly its over-the-top, in-your-face violence. Little is left to the audience's imagination except for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia and the execution of Quintus and Mart...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23336453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[-This is a story of a power struggle over the roman empire; lots of murder, rape, and more murder. <br/>-The main character is a war hero who's sons are traitorous to his name, so he disowns them. The newly appointed Caesar wants the main character's daughter for his wife, as does the Gothic prince...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71508965">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Titus Andronicus  <br/>Edited by Russ McDonald<br/>3-45<br/> There is some arguing and they go on a hunt while Lavinia gets taken by chiron and his rapped. Tamora is an evil queen who has no heart and gets Bassianus gets stabed because of it.<br/>The Characters are a bunch of wack jobs because t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71116803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might not be Shakespeare's best play, but it's probably his most underrated.  It's certainly ghastly, but that seems to wash out it's relatively moving and nuanced approach to character.  In this respect it's no <em>Hamlet</em>, but it's light years ahead of e.g. Kyd.  Just for instance, I.i. does a dec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13920627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Titus is probably one of my favorite plays by Shakespeare.  It is often overlooked because it is so sensational and seemingly unrefined.  I personally think the play has a lot to offer in terms of themes, characters, and social issues.  It is an incredibly rich text and probably an even better stage...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60799324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost universally considered his worst play, it's still a romp. I love demented plays in which all the beautiful poetry is put into the mouths of the villains. Julie Taymor's lush, confused adaptation was lush. And confused. I loved it. Hopkins, Lange, Cumming. What's not to love about that constel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14043523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46405468">
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I'll get much argument by calling <em>Titus Andronicus</em> Shakespeare's most hated play.  Some critics hate so much that they question whether or not their beloved bard actually penned it.  T.S. Eliot <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/titus/about/critics.html">called it</a> “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written.”  A hundred year...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46405468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75697061">
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    <body><![CDATA[I will admit that I am definitely not a Sakespeare expert but read several plays in order to choose which enactment to see at the Stratford Festival. I didn't choose this one!<br/>This tradgedy was horrifying to read because of the sheer evilness of the characters and the outrageous violence throug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75697061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I dug this book!  I took a class on the tragedies and this was part of the required reading and I am very happy it was.  Although I was shocked by the reaction of 95% of the class, who found it so violent they couldn't read it.  I on the other hand found the violence so outrageous it became comical....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50760426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book although it has the Shakespear difficulty is a bloody fun read. Its violent throughtout and it doesn't get boring and the word that sums up the story is just REVENGE. The story has its exceptional characters my favorite one is only african american character Aaron who is so evil that its n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77056564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71533141">
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Shakespeare was on crazy pills when he wrote this.  Or, he had just gone through a really bad breakup.  This play - his first tragedy - is angry, frantic, and gory to the max.  It is also overflowing with elements that ultimately prove successful for Shakespeare in his later tragedies, if on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71533141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[[NOTE: the two star rating is only relative to the rest of Shakespeare's stuff. Hamlet, for example, gets a 5, Henry V gets a 4, etc...]<br/>Ooph! This one was intense (um, Brain pie?). An early, frantic tragedy, in which Shakespeare tries to outdo the myth of Philomela. The language doesn't reach ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71576320">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 15:08:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were many times I avoided reading Shakespeare.  Those words- so daunting.  My drugs- very potent.  Somehow I escaped high school only having read Romeo and Juliet.  Not impressed, and unfortunately, I didn't realize that words like &quot;wherefore&quot; actually meant &quot;why.&quot;  This di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34060670">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had tried delving into the Divine Comedy, but it just wasn't doing it for me after the first handful of cantos in Inferno. &quot;I need something more violent right now,&quot; thought I. So I decided to read Titus, which I somehow never read (though I heart the movie intensely). Dang! Why isn't La...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27954052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like a &quot;A Comedy of Errors,&quot; &quot;Titus Andronicus&quot; is part of a grammar-school-educated Shakespeare's crash-course substitute for a university education.  In &quot;Comedy of Errors,&quot; he imitated Plautine comedy's plot structure and stock characters, and--in an experiment to see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1182607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Without a doubt, my favorite one from Shakespeare. A perfect story of revenge. Not only it is very clever, but you'll also find yourself reading this until it's over in one sitting. A story about all the unfair, relentless and merciless evil deeds done to a glorious Roman general Titus Andronicus an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22131809">more...</a>]]></body>
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