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Titus Andronicus (full video on Utube...get it while it's alive)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WwRyRKiGfs ^
Posted on 11/30/2013 4:42:35 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Titus Andronicus
This is one of my favorite movies and I have no doubt that this video will be pulled shortly.
Enjoy while you can!
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
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Julie Taymor, Tony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, et al.
To: RoosterRedux
Was just reading about this in Smithsonian magazine.
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posted on
11/30/2013 4:47:01 PM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
To: RoosterRedux
Titus was Shakespeare's first play (whoever he was) and it was, as one would expect of a new author/playwright, over the top.
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posted on
11/30/2013 4:53:39 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: Past Your Eyes
Thousands of years before the industrial revolution, there was the Roman industrialization of man...the mechanization of man in war.
And it worked magnificently.
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posted on
11/30/2013 5:06:57 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: RoosterRedux
To: RoosterRedux
I think this is the only Shakespeare play bloodier than Hamlet
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posted on
11/30/2013 5:22:49 PM PST
by
verga
(The devil is in the details)
To: verga
To: verga
The question is “who is this Shakespeare who can capture the rot of Rome before its fall?”
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posted on
11/30/2013 5:37:24 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: verga
Elizabethan England loved its plays bloody and violent. Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" delivered what audiences of the day wanted.
" Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Draw near them then in being merciful.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
Titus should have listened to Tamora.
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posted on
11/30/2013 5:54:34 PM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
11/30/2013 6:02:47 PM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: PowderMonkey
Titus should have listened to Tamora. Then there would have been no play...no tragedy.;-)
This is one of my favorite plays...I like its brutality.
It is all Rome in a way.
Gothic Europe could never be bloodier than Rome. I think that is the final message.
Shakespeare (whoever he is) gets to the bottom line of Rome in that period (and gets to the bottom line of the Goths as well).
The currency of the empire is blood...and revenge!
This is the beginning of the modern world. Out of this world of blood emerges the Christian world...slowly, painfully, in sores and bulbous spread by plague...the modern world emerged.
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posted on
11/30/2013 6:08:43 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: morphing libertarian
MacbethYou Are correct 14 for Macbeth, 9 for Titus, and 5 for Hamlet. These are only on stage deaths of main characters, it does not count battle scenes and the deaths of tertiary players.
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posted on
11/30/2013 6:16:38 PM PST
by
verga
(The devil is in the details)
To: verga
But there were no meat pies in Macbeth.
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posted on
11/30/2013 6:22:06 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
To: RoosterRedux
Come and get it!
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posted on
11/30/2013 8:22:59 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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