Word: andronicus
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Known for her books on the foreign policy of Andronicus II, an emperor in the late Byzantine period, and on peasant society in the same era, Laiou--currently a professor of history at Rutgers University--said yesterday she is "very excited" about returning to Harvard...
...TITUS ANDRONICUS by William Shakespeare...
There are 13 murders in Titus Andronicus, or an average of about one every twelve minutes. It is an early work (written in 1594), and the poetry is at odds with the fury, rampaging revenge pursued like a blood sport. Director Brian Bedford mitigates the gore, achieving a certain stoic Roman dignity. The drama's chief interest is that it offers embryonic models of characters who would dominate later tragedies...
...Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
...this recalls the dawn of Greek tragedy. But unlike the Greek plays, Titus Andronicus provides no pity, terror or catharsis. The characters are slain with the casual impersonality of gangsters being picked off by hit men. Among the players, Hutt's Titus grows in stature as the bereaved father, and Galloway's Tamora is a one-woman "wilderness of tigers." Devoid of a moral center, Titus Andronicus nonetheless exerts a perverse fascination, for it glows with the phosphorescence of evil...