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TITUS ANDRONIKUS, famous Roman general / He refuses the power that is offered to him / After that he loses EVERYTHING, his family and BOTH ARMS at the emperor’s command / A DISASTRAINMENT after Shakespeare by Heiner Müller - -

HEINER MÜLLER - ANATOMY TITUS FALL OF ROME A SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARY

Titus Andronikus

Humankind’s

veins opened

like a book

to browse in the blood stream

A NEW VICTORY

DESTROYS ROME

CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

TWO SONS OF A DEAD EMPORER

EACH FOLLOWED

BY THEIR GOON SQUAD

LAY CLAIM

TO THE EMPTY THRONE

ONE WITH HIS BIRTHRIGHT

THE OTHER INSISTS

ON HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

BETWEEN THEM SITS

THE EMPEROR’S CROWN IN HIS WEAK HAND

THE ELDEST TRIBUNE

THE BROTHER OF GENERAL

TITUS ANDRONIKUS

WHO, FOR 10 YEARS, HAS

FOUGHT A WAR

AGAINST THE GOTHS

WHO IN FOREST AND STEPPE

PUSH TOWARDS THE

CITIES’ TROUGH

DECIMATED BY WOLVES

THE GIRLS UNBUTTON

THEIR BLOUSES

AND THROW FLOWERS

UNDER THE TANKS

GREAT ROME

THE WHORE OF THE COMBINES

TAKES ITS WOLVES

BACK TO ITS BREAST

IN THE VICTOR’S DUST

CRAWL THE CONQUERED

THIS TIME THE GOTHS

A QUEEN

WITH HEAVY BREASTS

HER NEGRO ON A CHAIN

THE BLACK DOG

THE PRINCES BEHIND HER

THE GENERAL IS ADMONISHED

BY THE FIRSTBORN SON

The dead don’t like

being the only victim

The queen of the Goths

has three sons

One too many /

Peter Berling as Titus Andronikus

GRASS BREAKS OPEN THE STONE

THE WALLS ARE BUDDING

THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SWEATING

SLAVE BLOOD

WILD CATS’ BREATH BLOWS

IN PARLIAMENT

WITH A HOT CLOUD

WITH THE STENCH OF CARRION

HYENA SHADOW

SIDLES AND VULTURE FLIGHT

ALONG THE PARKWAYS

AND STAINS THE COLUMS OF VICTORY

THE PANTHERS JUMP SOUNDLESSLY

THROUGH THE BANKS /

EVERYTHING BECOMES SHORE

WAITING FOR THE OCEAN

IN THE MUD OF THE

TRUMPETS /

ATTILA’S SCOUTS

WALK AS TOURISTS THROUGH MUSEUMS

AND BITE INTO THE MARBLE

MEASURE THE CHURCHES

FOR HORSE STALLS

AND STRIDE GREEDILY

THROUGH THE SUPERMARKET

THE RAPE OF THE COLONIES

THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

WILL BE KISSED

BY THE HOOVES OF THEIR HORSES

BRINGING THE FIRST WORLD

HOME INTO NOTHINGNESS /

Titus Andronikus

THE SCENE CHANGES

FROM THE FOREST OF ART

TO ROME

WHERE PAPER

BEATS ROCK IN A DIFFERENT WAY

IN THE SAND STORM OF LAWS

THE NEGRO’S EXCURSION ABOUT POLITICS

YOUR EMPEROR SAYS

IT WAS THE WRONG HAND

IT WAS THE OTHER HAND

THAT YOUR EMPEROR WANTED

HOW CAN HE STEAL YOUR RIGHT

FROM YOU

THAT DID SO MUCH GOOD

FOR ROME AND FOR HIM

HOW COULD YOU THINK

THAT HE WOULD DO IT

TITUS ANDRONIKUS

ROME’S HAS-BEEN GENERAL

SO THAT YOU DON’T ESUFNOC (CONFUSE)

LEFT AND RIGHT ANYMORE

THE GENERAL

REBUILDS HIS FAMILY

INTO A WAR MACHINE

FOR THE CIVIL WAR

LIKE HANDGRENADES

HE THROWS HIS CHILDREN

INJURIES ARE MONKEYS

EVERY STUMP

A VICTORY

THE FIGHT IS

BEING FOUGHT IN THE CLOUDS

AND WITH THE ARSENAL

OF LIBRARIES

THOSE

WHO HAVE NO HANDS

READ WITH THEIR TEETH

HEINER MÜLLER - ANATOMIE TITUS FALL OF ROME A SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARY