The Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus

1594, by William Shakespeare

• Dramatis Personae

• Act 1 Scene 1 (page 1) (Goth queen's son sacrificed; Saturninus throned.)
• Act 1 Scene 1 (page 2) (Titus slays his son; War prisoners freed; Tamora rises.)

• Act 2 Scene 1 (Aaron plots with Demetrius and Chiron.)
• Act 2 Scene 2 (The hunt with the Emperor)
• Act 2 Scene 3 (Death of Bassianus.)
• Act 2 Scene 4 (Lavinia raped, hands and tongue cut off.)

• Act 3 Scene 1 (Titus pleads for his son's life, Lucius banished. Titus's hand cut off, and returned with his sons's heads.)
• Act 3 Scene 2 (Grievous humor at Titus's house.)

• Act 4 Scene 1 (Lavinia reveals her assailers.)
• Act 4 Scene 2 (Lucius's son delivers a message from Titus to Aaron et al. Aaron begets a son.)
• Act 4 Scene 3 (Titus send letters to gods.)
• Act 4 Scene 4 (Saturninus huffy and puffy, receiving news of impending invasion.)

• Act 5 Scene 1 (Lucius prepares Goth army. Aaron caught.)
• Act 5 Scene 2 (Goth queen schemes Titus as Revenge; Chiron and Demetrius made into a pie)
• Act 5 Scene 3 (Lavinia dies; Goth Queen, Titus, Emperor, die.)

Notes from XahLee.org

The Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare is a tale of revenge. It is the first of Shakespeare's plays. It is one of the bloodiest literature. For more detail about this play, see Wikipedia: Titus_Andronicus .

The occasional image inserts are screenshots from the 1999 film adaptation by Julie Taymor. (i believe the copyright of screenshots from the film belongs to © 1999 - Overseas Film Group) For more info about this film, see: Titus_(film), Screenshots, DVD at amazon. I highly recommend the film.

The annotations on the side are by me, Xah Lee, for the study of the English language and humanities. AHD = American Heritage Dictionary. JB = Jonathan Bate.

I started reading and annotating this work in 2005-03, using nothing but Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. The bulk of the annotations are based on American Heritage Dictionary (AHD) and Wikipedia. First pass of annotation was completed in 2006-10. Even reading this work word-for-word and looking up general references along the way (and having seen a wonderful film realization repeatedly), many terms, phrases, passages, allusions remain puzzling.

In 2006-12, i started to re-read the work from professionally annotated sources, notably “The Arden Shakespeare” (3rd ed, 1995), edited by Jonathan Bate (b1958). amazon. Notes or direct quotes from him are indicated by “(JB)”.

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Thanks to people on alt.usage.english in helping understanding and discussing this work. In particular, John Dean, Alan Jones, Mike Lyle, Pat Durkin, Donna Richoux, Lars Eighner, Josh Hill, CDB, Don Phillipson. (and more...)

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