"High" art and "low" blows: Titus Andronicus and the critical language of pain.
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Lisa Dickson |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | William Shakespeare |
| Person | Works | William Shakespeare |
| Related Content | Type |
| Titus Andronicus | eNotes |
| Titus Andronicus | eText |
| Titus Andronicus | Salem on Literature |
A construction is, after all, not the same as an artifice. On the contrary, constructivism needs to take account of the domain of constraints without which a certain living and desiring being cannot make its way. And every such being is constrained by not only what is difficult to imagine, but what remains radically unthinkable .... (Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter 94)
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Titus Andronicus, a reviewer of Peter Brook's 1955 production tells us, is "not so much a play as a dramatised abbatoir: an orgy of horror for horror's sake" characterized by "an almost...
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