Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare · c. 1592 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

A Roman general returns victorious with the captive queen of the Goths and sacrifices her eldest son over his own dead. She becomes empress, and the injuries traded between the two families escalate past anything Rome has language for. The young playwright out-Senecas Seneca.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Metamorphoses
  Ovid · 8 CE · Poem
• ↓ Othello
  William Shakespeare · c. 1604 CE · Play — influenced by this
• prefigures ↓ Hamlet
  William Shakespeare · c. 1601 CE · Play

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Closest analogues

• Thyestes
  Seneca · c. 62 CE · Play

  57% · 13 shared
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• The Cenci
  Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819 CE · Play

  55% · 13 shared
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• Hecuba
  Euripides · c. 424 BCE · Play

  52% · 11 shared
  PlayTragedyJustice & RevengeSuffering & EnduranceAvengerVillain / TyrantRevenge CycleTragic ReversalBloodvs PersonTragic
• The Duchess of Malfi
  John Webster · c. 1614 CE · Play

  51% · 13 shared
  PlayTragedyJustice & RevengeRenaissanceVillain / TyrantRevenge CycleTragic ReversalBloodThe Tombvs PersonTragicGothicEnglish
• Agamemnon
  Seneca · c. 50 CE · Play

  49% · 11 shared
  PlayTragedyJustice & RevengeWar & ViolenceAvengerRevenge CycleTragic ReversalBloodvs PersonTragicGothic
• Henry VI, Part 3
  William Shakespeare · c. 1592 CE · Play

  48% · 12 shared
  PlayJustice & RevengeWar & ViolenceRenaissanceAvengerVillain / TyrantRevenge CycleBloodvs PersonTragicGothicEnglish