But teaching with film clips is really self-obviously valuable (also good for student engagement) and I need to work on this. I know and like the Julie Taymor Titus movie from 1999--maybe should use a bit of it?
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Other misc things: my least favorite trope in all of Renaissance drama is fool speech / mad speech. The performance tradition around it is uninteresting. The scholarly arguments about it are mostly stupid. Close reading it is aggravating. Result: I pretty much skip Mad Titus.
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Related: I don't talk much about the Revenge stuff toward the end other than as another example of violent intertextual imitation. And so I often kind of skim past Tamora dressed as Revenge etc. Maybe if I taught Hamlet(which I typically don't), I'd do more with Kyd and vigilantism etc?
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Finally: I feel like I should do more about internal Roman politics / political culture (inheritance vs. election, those boring speeches from Sat. and Bas. at the beginning). Sigh.
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