By Andrew Sarris 1/10/00 12:00am

Bard at His Bloodiest In Julie Taymor’s Titus

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, Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 7/27/98 12:00am

Glove Me Tender: Shakespeare in the Skin Trade

So here I am again, prowling around the margins of the Shakespeare canon, searching for clues in the earliest, shakiest Shakespeare for the signature of Shakespearean genius, for what makes Shakespeare Shakespearean, so to speak. In the weeks since my recent column on twinship and ambiguity in The Comedy of Errors , I’ve reread, for Read More