Titus

"The Lamentable Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus" is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1553, it's his bloddiest work, represents the early gore, reason why it lost popularity during the Victorian era.

The characters are:

+ Titus Andronicus (noble general of the roman army)
-Lucius (and young Lucius) - Quintus - Martius - Mutius - Lavinia

+Marcus Andronicus (Titus brother, tribune of the people)
- Plubius (Son of Marcus)

+Tamora
-Alarbus (first male)
-Demetrius
-Chiron

+Late Emperor of Rome
-Saturninus (afterwards declared Emperor)
-Bassanius (brother of Saturninus)

+Aaron (moor in love with Tamora)

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Synopsis:

The glorious roman army has return victorious from the war against the Goths with 4 trophies, the queen and her sons. Because the victory, he follows the tradition and sacrifies the heir of the goth throne Alarbus, Tamora, queen of the goths, curses Titus after she beged for her son's life.

Rome is in caos because the emperor has died, his sons, Bassanius and Saturninus are trying to become emperors, Marcus Andronicus and the Council elects Titus because his experience, he reffuses and benefits the first boy, Saturninus. Saturninus decides to punish his brother and choose Lavinia, Bassianus fianceé, to marry him, Bassianus run away to banishment with her, but Titus is commanded to return with his daughter, Lavinia brothers helped her and Mutius got killed by his father.

Bassianus married Lavinia in secret, and the emperor decides to marry Tamora, she was convinced by her black lover, the moor Aaron, to accept the proposal and in only one day, she became from war slave to queen of the most powerfull empire of the earth in that time.

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* Last part will include the analysis and critics of the whole movie.

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Sonnet XVIII

Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply “The Sonnets”, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in a 1609 collection. The “sonnet XVIII” is probably one of the Shakespeare's most famous sonnets.

Sonnet XVIII

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; D
And every fair from fair sometime declines, C
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; D
But thy eternal summer shall not fade E
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, E
When in eternal lines to time thou growest: F
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G
So long lives this and this gives life to thee. G

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Elizabethan Cosmovision

This is the Elizabethan Stage, where the plays are interpretated
according to this cosmovision each part of the stage has a meaning, which is listed below:
1.- the Main stage: it simbolized the terrenal world, in this part very rich people payed to be sitting on the stage so they could be seen and show their new dresses and jewelry.
2.- The trap door: this is the encarnation of hell, the character going down the trap are going to hell, and the ones that emerge form this trap are coming from hell.
3.- The upper stage: is the sibolization of Heaven, in the same way that the trap is of the hell.

These buildings were round, square, or many-sided, all were open at the top.
The hut on the top of the roof contained machinery to produce sound effects and various special effects.
Image:http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/tems/library/theaterlabeled.htm

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Program

SHAKESPEARE RETOLD

Mystic River

Titus

Macbeth

Twelfht Night

Othello

The Marchant of Vennice

Romeo and Juliet

A Midsummer Night's dream

King lear

The Tempest

Hamlet

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