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Article: Bard at His Bloodiest In Julie Taymor's Titus.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2000
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Byline: Andrew Sarris
Julie Taymor's Titus, based on the play Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, would strike the more learned admirers of the Bard as a curious, almost incomprehensible choice from his oeuvre for a movie in any other times but our own. Consider the most grotesquely gruesome entrance in all dramatic literature, "Enter the Emperor's sons, Demetrius and Chiron, with Lavinia, her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out, and ravished." Poor Lavinia! But fear not. Shakespeare will serve up the infamous rapists and mutilators, Demetrius and Chiron, three acts later to their own mother Tamora, formerly captive Queen of the Goths, and now Empress of ...
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