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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 926: Dramatis Personæ
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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

Contents

ACT I
Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol

ACT II
Scene I. Rome. Before the palace
Scene II. A Forest near Rome; a Lodge seen at a distance. Horns and cry of hounds heard
Scene III. A lonely part of the Forest
Scene IV. Another part of the Forest

ACT III
Scene I. Rome. A street
Scene II. Rome. A Room in Titus’s House. A banquet set out

ACT IV
Scene I. Rome. Before Titus’s House
Scene II. Rome. A Room in the Palace
Scene III. Rome. A public Place
Scene IV. Rome. Before the Palace

ACT V
Scene I. Plains near Rome
Scene II. Rome. Before Titus’s House
Scene III. Rome. A Pavilion in Titus’s Gardens, with tables, &c.

Dramatis Personæ

SATURNINUS, elder son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor
BASSIANUS, brother to Saturninus

TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman, General against the Goths
MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and brother to Titus

LAVINIA, daughter to Titus Andronicus
LUCIUS, son to Titus Andronicus
QUINTUS, son to Titus Andronicus
MARTIUS, son to Titus Andronicus
MUTIUS, son to Titus Andronicus

YOUNG LUCIUS, a boy, son to Lucius
PUBLIUS, son to Marcus the Tribune

SEMPRONIUS, kinsman to Titus
CAIUS, kinsman to Titus
VALENTINE, kinsman to Titus

AEMILIUS, a noble Roman

TAMORA, Queen of the Goths
AARON, a Moor, beloved by Tamora
ALARBUS, son to Tamora
DEMETRIUS, son to Tamora
CHIRON, son to Tamora

A CAPTAIN
MESSENGER
A NURSE, and a black child
CLOWN
Goths and Romans

Tribunes, Senators, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants

SCENE: Rome, and the Country near it