Tragedy of Titus Andronicus (version 2)
Author: first_name: William
last_name: Shakespeare
Language: English
Year: 1594

Perhaps no play in William Shakespeare's body of work is more divisive than his first tragedy <i>Titus Andronicus</i>, wherein the titular Roman general, freshly arrived back home after a decade-long crusade against the Goths, refuses to ascend to the emperorship and quickly sets off a bloody campaign of vengeance when he orders the death of the eldest son of Tamora, Queen of the Goths, to avenge the deaths of his own sons during the war. Violence gives way to more violence as more and more bodi