tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982894216313000227.post6564551883751372270..comments2023-06-03T06:59:11.363-07:00Comments on The Life of Reading Shakespeare: To Kill a Fly: Titus Andronicusgabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695602746524955606noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982894216313000227.post-17105280565985648012010-01-14T22:39:52.756-08:002010-01-14T22:39:52.756-08:00It's definitely supposed to show how crazy Tit...It's definitely supposed to show how crazy Titus is. <br />Although I just watched Julie Taymor's "Titus" and she changed the scene so that it's Titus's grandson, Young Lucius who kills the fly instead of his brother, Marcus. Anthony Hopkins plays it light, as though he's joking with his grandson, which really humanizes him, but sort of undermines the fear that we might have later on that Titus is in danger of being outsmarted by the empress. <br />I'm not a Julie Taymor fan, the movie was completely overproduced, but that sort of works for this play, which is pretty much a spectacle of violence anyway. <br />And damn if she didn't make some interesting choices.gabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695602746524955606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982894216313000227.post-54239548155831879192010-01-13T12:46:12.082-08:002010-01-13T12:46:12.082-08:00"That with his pretty buzzing melody"
..."That with his pretty buzzing melody" <br /><br />I think it's interesting that a fly's buzzing is referred to as melodious and pretty when in our day and age it's often a shorthand way for writers to describe decrepit conditions or whatnot. I wonder if Shakespeare sincerely thought fly buzzing was pretty or if he didn't and wanted to use the line to underlie Titus's insanity. Because you'd have to be crazy to like the buzzing of flies.Safia, duh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16398612126655719062noreply@blogger.com