Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2015 by Dover Publications.

ISBN:: 978-0-486-79004-6
OCLC Number:: 907519575

(15 reviews)

Set amid the latter days of the Roman Empire, this tragedy of a military and political leader bent on vengeance is fictional rather than historical. Shakespeare modeled the play on the violent and gory revenge dramas fashionable among his contemporaries, and the plot encompasses horrifying incidents of rape, murder, and mutilation.

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1 star

It's bloody awful, in my opinion. And awful bloody, as a matter of fact. I'd always assumed that it was the first play that he'd written, and that its excesses were just his feeling his way to becoming a playwright. But now they think that several other 'better' plays preceded it. So, what's with this play? Was he just pandering to public opinion, piling up more gore and blood than any of his contemporaries had been able to? Dialing it up to 11, so to speak. Or maybe that's it. Maybe it was never meant to be taken seriously, but was only a parody of the revenge tragedy.