In his 1998 book, " Shakespeare : The Invention of the Human ", Harold Bloom attacked the play on numerous occasions, calling it " a howler ", " a poetic atrocity ", " an exploitative parody, with the inner purpose of destroying the ghost of Christopher Marlowe " and " a blowup, an explosion of rancid irony . " Bloom summates his views by declaring " I can concede no intrinsic value to " Titus Andronicus " . " Citing the 1955 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production, directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, which is generally agreed to have provided the impetus for the 20th century revaluation of the play, Bloom said that the audience laughed several times in scenes which were supposed to be tragic, and he sees this as evidence for its failure as Tragedy.
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Several critics lauded Grimes'interactions with Walsh in " 18 Miles Out . " Writing for CNN, Henry Hanks said that " Rick made it clear to Shane that he had to respect his rules from now on . " Alex Crumb of " The Faster Times " evaluated their physical confrontation as " wholly satisfying, " while " Entertainment Weekly " writer Darren Franich appreciated the fight scene involving Grimes and Walsh; " The Shane / Rick fight was great, a brilliantly extended scuffle that started out with an air of boys-will-be-boys pettiness but quickly escalated into something genuinely homicidal . " Berriman of " SFX " summated : " It's shocking when Shane hurls a wrench at Rick s head, but even more shocking that Rick is prepared to cut and run and leave him for dead.
