Physical Disabilities and the Filmic Stare in Richard III and Titus Andronicus

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-68
Author(s):  
Grace McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus

Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 280-294
Author(s):  
Neema Parvini
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Henry Vi

This chapter assesses the extent to which harm is caused in Shakespeare’s plays when the moral order breaks down by focusing on plays in which the dramatis personae revert to the Hobbesian state of nature and unspeakable cruelty: Titus Andronicus, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and King Lear. In such moments Shakespeare seems to invoke the image of the tiger, which he only uses fifteen times in all his works. In the constrained or tragic vison (Thomas Sowell), when there are no institutions with which to reinforce the morals that bind people together (authority, loyalty, fairness, sanctity), the worst aspects of humanity – as embodied in the tiger – are granted their fullest expression. However, in Shakespeare’s version of this vision, human nature provides the seeds of its own rebirth.

Pagan/Catholic/Protestant/Christian

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
Peter Lake
Keyword(s):  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Primal Scene ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter reviews the comparison between Hamlet and Titus Andronicus. It explains how Titus operated as an exercise in natural theology and thought experiment that is set in an elaborately evoked pre-Christian Rome. It also points out how Titus sets up a revenge-based primal scene, within which the relations between revenge, religion, and resistance are examined. The chapter highlights the great confessional conflicts of the 1500s that are evoked through the annihilating religious violence, attendant discourses of martyrdom, and persecution at the heart of the action. It also compares the relationship between the plays Titus Andronicus and Richard III to Hamlet and Julius Caesar. It argues how Williams Shakespeare's plays responded to the central issues of tyranny and resistance.

Richard III, and: Titus Andronicus, and: Hamlet (review)

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Montuori
Keyword(s):  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus

Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lake
Keyword(s):  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Revenge Tragedy

This chapter provides a comparison of Richard III and Titus Andronicus. Both Titus and Richard III have at their centre an elaborated picture of tyranny. While Titus comes off as a revenge tragedy, it also features a political under-plot, in which, as well as revenge being achieved by the Andronici, legitimacy is restored to a Rome ravaged by the tyranny of Saturninus and the Machiavellian atheism and evil counsel of Tamora and her lover Aaron, the Moor. While the radical purport of what actually happens in Richard III is obscured rather than highlighted by the heavily providential mix of prophecy and prodigy that suffuses the action, none of that is true of Titus Andronicus.

Succession and confessional politics combined

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Peter Lake
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Revenge Tragedy ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Henry Vi

This chapter focuses on the play “Titus Andronicus,” which is considered not merely a revenge tragedy. It explains how Titus is suffused with evocations and references to the Aeneid and central elements in the plot that are taken from Ovid. It also mentions how Titus was described as a “noble Roman history” when it was entered in the stationer's register. The chapter discusses the Titus' central concerns: succession, tyranny, resistance and the nature and origins of monarchical legitimacy. It shows how Titus contains echoes of and parallels with the Henry VI and Richard III plays and how it was set within a meticulously evoked and entirely fictional version of Romanitas.

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