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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, often shortened to Titus Andronicus, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely ...
Below this, lines from Act 1 (Tamora's plea to Titus; 1.1.104-120 and one line of Titus' reply; 1.1.121) and Act 5 (Aaron's boast of his many vile deeds; 5.1.125-144) are quoted. After the final line of Aaron is written "et cetera" and below, written as a speech prefix is "Alarbus", although he has no lines in the play itself.
After ten long years of a hard-fought war, the Roman general Titus Andronicus returns triumphant; however, with only four out of his twenty five sons alive. One of the captures he has made is Tamora, Queen of the enemy Goths, and her four sons. In accordance with Roman ritual Titus makes a sacrifice of Tamora's eldest son to honour his dead sons.
Titus Andronicus is the main character in William Shakespeare's revenge tragedy of the same name, Titus Andronicus. [1] Titus is introduced as a Roman nobleman and revered general. Prior to the events of the play, he dedicated ten years of service in the war against the Goths, losing 21 sons in the conflict. In the opening act, Titus orders ...
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One of the main reasons that Titus has traditionally been derided is the amount of on-stage violence. [8] The play is saturated with violence from its opening scene, and violence touches virtually every character; Alarbus is burned alive and has his arms chopped off; Titus stabs his own son to death; Bassianus is murdered and thrown into a pit; Lavinia is brutally raped and has her hands cut ...
Scholarly debate exists as to which text may have existed first, the ballad or the play (indeed, there is a third potential Titus Andronicus source, a prose history published in chapbook form during the 18th century). [1] The ballad itself was first entered on the Stationers' Register in 1594, the same year the play was entered. [2]
The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare.It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introductions and full commentaries.