Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is famously the bloodiest and most violent of Shakespeare’s often bloody and violent tragedies.Its horrors reflect the collapse and decay of the Roman empire and the fear that failure inspired in English subjects living in their own troubling times. This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare), ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).

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Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare’s Roman history plays. Others are Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. You can find them all here.

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