Shakespeare's Globe, LondonWhat's Titus Andronicus really about? On one level, it's Shakespeare's most conspicuously show-offy tragedy: an earnest homage to Seneca and Ovid that reads, on the page, like a sixth-form essay in classical drama. On stage, it's the cartoonish carnage you remember: a play in which the hero is tricked into lopping his own hand off, then gets his own back on the two men who have raped his da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM on May 10, 2012