Titus Andronicus (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1594
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Early Christian era
- Setting: Rome and its vicinity
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Rape, Death or dying, Revenge, Kings, queens, or royalty, Italy or Italians, Greek or Roman times, Rome
- Locales: Roman Empire, Rome, ancient
Characters Discussed
Titus Andronicus (TI-tuhs an- DRON-ih-kuhs), a noble Roman soldier who has dedicated his life and lost twenty-one of his twenty-five sons in the service of the state. He is not an entirely coherent or consistent character, especially in the first act of the play. In that act, he disdains ambition, offers his support to Saturninus, and mourns the death of the sons whose bodies he brings home from the wars; in the same act, he also sets off a chain of slaughters as he sacrifices the eldest son of the captured Tamora, queen of the Goths, on the tomb of his own...
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