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Titus Andronicus

Chapter 2: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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A returning military leader and his family become entangled in a brutal power struggle after a contested imperial succession and the public sacrifice of an enemy captive. Political ambition and private vengeance intertwine as a vengeful queen and her allies plot atrocities, including sexual violence and mutilation that shatter domestic life. The play traces cycles of revenge, betrayal, and gruesome retaliation across public and private arenas, ending in a bloody, tragic reckoning that examines justice, cruelty, and the collapse of civic order.

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