Overview

This edition of  two of Shakespeare's classical plays, Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens, contains a newly edited text of the two plays with clear explanatory notes on each page as well as helpful scene-by-scene analyses and key facts about both of them. It also features an introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre with rich explorations of approaches to staging both plays featuring photographs of key productions and takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors - Gregory Doran,YukioNinagawa and Michael Pennington - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.