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Andronicus I

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Andronicus I (Andronicus Comnenus) , 1120?-1185, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), nephew of John II. He acceded to the throne by strangling his cousin Alexius II . Though notorious in his younger years for his scandalous morals, he was a competent, if cruel, ruler. He took strict measures to protect the peasants against the great landowners, enforced honesty on the tax collectors, and was the terror of corrupt officials. His severity and his failure to stop the rapid advance of William II of Sicily against the capital led to his overthrow and the elevation of Isaac II . Andronicus was... Read more
Andronicus I Comnenus
...and married his 13-year-old widow. Andronicus reformed the Byzantine government...approach led to a revolt, in which Andronicus was killed by a mob and Isaac II Angelus was declared emperor. Andronicus I Comnenus Andronicus I Comnenus... Read more
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus, a tragedy by Shakespeare , dating...wrote the whole play. Sources for Titus Andronicus that have been put forward include...play deals with the return of Titus Andronicus to Rome after his sixth victory over... Read more

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It's Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.(News)
; ...Globe Theatre. Laura Rees says Titus Andronicus is being staged as Shakespeare intended...Time and atrocities have helped Titus Andronicus,' said Susannah Clapp in The Observer...and Hamlet. 'Past productions of Titus Andronicus have symbolically represented the blood... Read more
Lesser Shakespeare, Any Way You Slice It; 'Titus Andronicus,' Offhand and -Head
; You can see why "Titus Andronicus" gets no respect. What theater worth...most primitive impulses does "Titus Andronicus" begin to become truly theatrical...to wait for some new blood. Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare. Directed... Read more
Roman or Revenger?: The Definition and Distortion of Masculine Identity in Titus Andronicus.(Critical Essay)
; ...Distortion of Masculine Identity in Titus Andronicus Brecken Rose Hancock University of New...Distortion of Masculine Identity in Titus Andronicus. Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1...emls/10-1/hancroma.htm>. In Titus Andronicus we see Titus fall victim to his own... Read more
Shakespeare's gone hip hop in 'Titus Andronicus'
; ...Shakespeare's gone hip hop in 'Titus Andronicus' Byline: GILAH K. HOFFMANN Edition...Lyakhovietsky, currently directing Titus Andronicus at Jerusalem's Center Stage Theater...Now, in addition to directing Titus Andronicus, he is in three different shows with... Read more
'TItus Andronicus' cast proves it's up to the task
; Seeing "Titus Andronicus," which opened over the weekend at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival...Romans and modern filmmakers share a flair for gore, and in "Titus Andronicus," there is a smorgasbord of it. The tragedy starts out with Tamora... Read more
THEATRE Titus Andronicus The Seer Sunday in the Park with George
; T S Eliot called Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus 'one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written...bakes Tamora's sons in a pie and feeds them to her. Titus Andronicus is a kind of morality play: the corrupt body politic must... Read more
Arts: Doesn't do much, does he? He's been compared to a bag of spanners. Yet he's done everything, from Titus Andronicus to The Lost World: Jurassic Park. And still we keep looking. And looking. The fact is, Pete Postlethwaite is a terrific actor who gives great face
; ...believe in him." "As an actor, my greatest strength is weakness," Postlethwaite reckons. "I can play vulnerable. In Titus Andronicus, I played this complete and utter bastard who'd say: `Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and stood them upright... Read more
The best of the Bad Guys Antony Sher does evil better than anyone: whether it's Richard III, Titus Andronicus or now, Macbeth, he can immerse himself in their dark sides and invest them with the whole range of human emotions. Scary stuff. But with Sher, worth the journey
; ...strutting dictator Arturo Ui, the jealous-to-an-unhinged- degree Leontes in The Winter's Tale, the blood-bolstered duo Titus Andronicus and Tamburlaine the Great... Occasionally, to confuse the critics, Sher has done a sideline in pathos, playing the put-upon... Read more
Review: The Arts: The woman who said no to Spielberg Her stage version of `The Lion King' has become a children's classic but, when Hollywood called, Julie Taymor chose to make her film-directing debut with the rather more grown-up story of `Titus Andronicus', she tells Lucy Cavendish
; ...these is her debut as film director, a stunning movie version of Shakespeare's first but seldom performed epic play Titus Andronicus, starring Anthony Hopkins in the title role. The play itself is very violent - hands are cut off, tongues ripped out, there... Read more
Titus Andronicus.(Theater review)
; Titus Andronicus Presented by The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California...Karl Kenzer (Bassianus), Leonard Kelly-Young (Titus Andronicus), Charles Janasz (Marcus Andronicus), J. Paul Boehmer (Lucius), Matt Biedel (Martius), Rhett... Read more

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