Cultural Iconology and Semiography Research Group
University of Szeged, Department of English
presents
THE SEMIOGRAPHY
OF
William Shakespeare’s
ENGLISH | HUNGARIAN
THE SEMIOGRAPHY
OF
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Textology, history, productions, critical reception.
Philology, iconography, semiography, revenge, violence, stage,
multimedia.
Produced by:
Cultural Iconology and Semiography
Research Group
University of Szeged
Editor-in-Chief:
Kiss Attila Atilla
Technical editors:
Fábricz Katalin
Kocsis-Savanya Katalin
Programming and design:
Kenéz László
Szabó Attila
Project members:
Barócsi Gyula
Fürth Eszter
Görgényi Beáta
Határ Zuszsanna
Kelemen Csilla
Köszler Bianka
Kuthy Petra
Maczák Zsuzsanna
Matuska Ágnes
Nagy Gergely
Oroszlán Anikó
Péti Miklós
Pitti Márta
Sánta Erzsébet
Zsoldos Anikó
Sponsored by:
The British Council, Hungary
Budapest Chamber Theater, Shure Studio, Budapest
Castle Theater, Gyula
Csiky Gergely Theater, Kaposvár
TITUS
SZEMIOGRÁFIÁJA
Textológia, történelem, színpadi változatok, recepciótörténet,
filológia, ikonográfia, szemiográfia,
bosszú, erőszak, színpadtechnika, multimédia.
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Kulturális Ikonologia és
Szemiográfia Kutatócsoport
Főszerkesztő:
Kiss Attila Atilla
Technical editors:
Fábricz Katalin
Kocsis-Savanya Katalin
Programming and design:
Kenéz László
Szabó Attila
Project members:
Barócsi Gyula
Fürth Eszter
Görgényi Beáta
Határ Zuszsanna
Kelemen Csilla
Köszler Bianka
Kuthy Petra
Maczák Zsuzsanna
Matuska Ágnes
Nagy Gergely
Oroszlán Anikó
Péti Miklós
Pitti Márta
Sánta Erzsébet
Zsoldos Anikó
Támogatóink:
The British Council, Hungary
Budapesti Kamaraszínház, Shure Studio, Budapest
Gyulai Várszínház
Csiky Gergely Színház, Kaposvár
THE SEMIOGRAPHY OF
TITUS ANDRONICUS
The Project
The Titus Andronicus project was launched in co-operation with the
English Department of the University of Hull within the framework of
a Joint Academic Research Program, sponsored by the British Council.
The project aimed at producing an interactive multimedia coverage of
the text, the stage history and the critical reception of
Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, with special emphasis on a number of
constitutive dramatic, dramaturgical, theatrical and iconographical
elements and themes. Since 2003, the Cultural Iconology and
Semiography Research Group has been responsible for the finalization
of the project. Our critical approach to Titus Andronicus surveys a
representative collection of critical articles on the play, and in
its interpretive perspective it employs the methodology of semiography, that is, a combination of iconography, iconology and
postsemiotics.
Semiography
The semiographic analysis relies on a comparative approach to early
modern and postmodern culture through a semiotic typology of
cultures, investigating how the epistemological and representational
crisis sets up particular analogies between the two periods. As an
analytical method, semiography revisits the findings of traditional
iconographical and iconological investigation from the perspective
of the semiotics of multimedial communication and the postsemiotics
of the subject. It applies a performance-oriented semiotic approach
to the dramatic text in order to interpret it according to the
representational logic of the theater that actualizes the play in
staging.
The project elaborates on the recently emerged postmodern affinity
towards representational techniques and epistemological
experimentations (e.g., violence, abjection, the anatomization of
the body, metaperspectives) that were also groundbreaking and
popular in early modern culture. This affinity also manifests itself
in the postmodern rehabilitation of Shakespeare's early revenge play,
which, for lack of suitable critical perspective and apparatus, was
categorized for centuries as an immature, embarrassing and erroneous
byproduct of Shakespeare’s theatrical talent.
The Program
The text of the play is provided with links to various pools of
background information, organized according to seven critical
facets: philology, revenge, violence, semiography, iconology, stage,
multimedia. These perspectives are available as the seven main menu
options at the bottom of the page.
You can check whether the page of the text you are currently using
is provided with any links by clicking on any of the individual menu
icons. If there are parts with links, the specific words will light
up in the colour of the respective menu.
By clicking on the “Every reference” icon, all the links available
on the actual page will show up by colouring the corresponding words
or parts of the text. In order to arrive at the actual background
information (explanation, quote from critical literature,
interpretive commentary, visual or multimedia materials), you have
to click on the coloured words or places within the text of the
drama.
If you would like to read the critical essays or use the multimedia
databases independent of the drama, you will find all the materials
included in the program by clicking on the menu icons here:
PHILOLOGY
REVENGE
VIOLENCE
SEMIOGRAPHY
ICONOLOGY
STAGE
MULTIMEDIA
THE SEMIOGRAPHY OF
TITUS ANDRONICUS
The Project
The Titus Andronicus project was launched in co-operation with the
English Department of the University of Hull within the framework of
a Joint Academic Research Program, sponsored by the British Council.
The project aimed at producing an interactive multimedia coverage of
the text, the stage history and the critical reception of
Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, with special emphasis on a number of
constitutive dramatic, dramaturgical, theatrical and iconographical
elements and themes. Since 2003, the Cultural Iconology and
Semiography Research Group has been responsible for the finalization
of the project. Our critical approach to Titus Andronicus surveys a
representative collection of critical articles on the play, and in
its interpretive perspective it employs the methodology of semiography, that is, a combination of iconography, iconology and
postsemiotics.
Semiography
The semiographic analysis relies on a comparative approach to early
modern and postmodern culture through a semiotic typology of
cultures, investigating how the epistemological and representational
crisis sets up particular analogies between the two periods. As an
analytical method, semiography revisits the findings of traditional
iconographical and iconological investigation from the perspective
of the semiotics of multimedial communication and the postsemiotics
of the subject. It applies a performance-oriented semiotic approach
to the dramatic text in order to interpret it according to the
representational logic of the theater that actualizes the play in
staging.
The project elaborates on the recently emerged postmodern affinity
towards representational techniques and epistemological
experimentations (e.g., violence, abjection, the anatomization of
the body, metaperspectives) that were also groundbreaking and
popular in early modern culture. This affinity also manifests itself
in the postmodern rehabilitation of Shakespeare's early revenge play,
which, for lack of suitable critical perspective and apparatus, was
categorized for centuries as an immature, embarrassing and erroneous
byproduct of Shakespeare’s theatrical talent.
The Program
The text of the play is provided with links to various pools of
background information, organized according to seven critical
facets: philology, revenge, violence, semiography, iconology, stage,
multimedia. These perspectives are available as the seven main menu
options at the bottom of the page.
You can check whether the page of the text you are currently using
is provided with any links by clicking on any of the individual menu
icons. If there are parts with links, the specific words will light
up in the colour of the respective menu.
By clicking on the “Every reference” icon, all the links available
on the actual page will show up by colouring the corresponding words
or parts of the text. In order to arrive at the actual background
information (explanation, quote from critical literature,
interpretive commentary, visual or multimedia materials), you have
to click on the coloured words or places within the text of the
drama.
If you would like to read the critical essays or use the multimedia
databases independent of the drama, you will find all the materials
included in the program by clicking on the menu icons here:
PHILOLOGY
REVENGE
VIOLENCE
SEMIOGRAPHY
ICONOLOGY
STAGE
MULTIMEDIA