Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Situations whose full explanations have already been slyly suggested are left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...
Critics have blasted the play as a primitive Kydian horror drama, full of murder but totally empty of any more profound Shakesperean qualities. The critics exaggerate--less about the murders, which are truly abundant and dominant, than about the alleged lack of anything else. Although Shakespeare is particularly blunt in Titus, he still creates a drama whose vigor and clear foreshadowing of Lear, Hamlet and Iago should be respected, and cannot glibly be tossed aside...
...intensity of Titus is often enormous, and not at all due only to murder and rape. Some of the murders become tragedies...
...director, Roger Graef, treats horror boldly and hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which effectively decreases the awkward closeness to the audience, the scene shows excellent interplay among the enemies as Titus feigns madness and delicately winds revenge around his visitors...
Kaplan Club represented the United States government in an appeal to the Circuit Court of a conviction for first degree murder. Griswold Club appeared for the defendant, Frank Blair. Blair was indicted and convicted for the murder of a confederate while the two were setting fire to a building on an air base within the Commonwealth of Ames...