Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
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- English
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Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
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Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome's wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views as disloyalty to Rome. Yet Rome has become "a wilderness of tigers." After a death sentence is imposed on two of his three remaining sons, and his daughter is raped and mutilated, Titus turns his loyalty toward his family.Aaron the Moor, a magnificent villain and the empress's secret lover, makes a similar transition. After the empress bears him a child, Aaron devotes himself to preserving the baby. Retaining his thirst for evil, he shows great tenderness to his little family—a tenderness that also characterizes Titus before the terrifying conclusion.The authoritative edition of Titus Andronicus from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
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ANDRONICUS
⟨ACT 1⟩
SATURNINUS | |
Noble patricians, patrons of my right, | 1 |
Defend the justice of my cause with arms. | 2 |
And countrymen, my loving followers, | 3 |
Plead my successive title with your swords. | 4 |
I am his firstborn son that was the last | 5 |
That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. | 6 |
Then let my father’s honors live in me, | 7 |
Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. | 8 |
BASSIANUS | |
Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right, | 9 |
If ever Bassianus, Caesar’s son, | 10 |
Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome, | 11 |
Keep, then, this passage to the Ca... |