Titus Andronicus Home Page

This is the Home Page for Titus Andronicus. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Titus Andronicus (Folio, 1623)
    
  • Titus Andronicus (Quarto 1, 1594)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Titus Andronicus

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales

List of performances related to Titus Andronicus

• Titus Andronicus (1956, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1986, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1986, Pat Patton, USA)
• Shakespeare Tragedies: Titus, R&J, Hamlet (2000, USA)
• Titus (1999, Julie Taymor, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1997, Lorn Richey, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1999, Christopher Dunne, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1967, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1988, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Shakespeare's Gladiator Games (2003, Upstart Crow Theatre Group, Canada)
• Titus Andronicus (2006, The Old Globe, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1988, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1999, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (1988, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (2007, Shakespeare Theatre Company, USA)
• Titus Andronicus (2006, Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss, Germany)
• Titus Andronicus (1999, Shakespeare by the Sea - Halifax, Canada)
• Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome (2008, The Bell Shakespeare Company, Australia)
• Titus Andronicus (2008, Richmond Shakespeare Society, UK)
• Titus Andronicus (1999, Judith Shakespeare Company, USA)
• 21 more performances...

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Lucius, Still Severely Flawed: A Response to Jonathan Bate, Maurice Hunt, and Philip Kolin
  Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Lucius, Still Severely Flawed: A Response to Jonathan Bate, Maurice Hunt, and Philip Kolin." Connotations 7.1 (1997-98): 97-103. Taylor defends his reading of Lucius as flawed and ironically portrayed and reasserts his argument that Lucius is not a redeemer figure at the end of the play:
• "Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus": A Reply
  Kolin, Philip C. "'Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus': A Reply." Connotations 7.1 (1997-98): 94-96. Kolin calls for a deeper and more positive reading of Lucius than Anthony Taylor's - with an emphasis on Lucius' individuality:
• Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD
  Lancashire, Ian. "Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD." Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1/Special Issue 1 (1997): 6.1-20. A guided tour of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database and its usefulness when used alongside Titus Andronicus to explore the different Renaissance meaning of many of the play's words:
• Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus
  Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus." Connotations 6.2 (1996-97): 138-57. Taylor questions the accepted critical reading of Lucius as a redeemer figure:
• Exonerating Lucius in Titus Andronicus: A Response to Anthony Brian Taylor
  Hunt, Maurice. "Exonerating Lucius in Titus Andronicus: A Response to Anthony Brian Taylor." Connotations 7.1 (1997-98): 87-93. Hunt defends the character of Lucius as a redeemer figure and argues that Taylor has distorted and neglected some of Lucius' key traits in order to undermine his virtue: