Dec 25, 2009

Titus Andronicus | Titus Andronicus

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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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Titus Andronicus | Titus Andronicus

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