Shakespeare's tragedy in which Titus Andronicus, Rome's noble soldier of many years, takes violent revenge upon the men who raped his daughter and killed his sons, and calls for curses upon Rome itself.
Contains the text of the drama of murder, rape, and betrayal, presented with modernized spelling and punctuation, and includes scene-by-scene plot summaries, explanatory notes, an interpretive essay, and accounts of Shakespeare's life and theatre.
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An annotated edition of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Titus Andronicus, Rome's noble soldier of many years, takes violent revenge upon the men who raped his daughter and killed his sons, and calls for curses upon Rome itself; with detailed notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, an introduction to Shakespeare's language, and more.
