Titus Andronicus
"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...
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