* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre ( for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Webster's The White Devil ) to today's splatter films.

Lucrece is also featured in William Shakespeare's 1594 long poem The Rape of Lucrece ; he also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night ( Malvolio authenticates his fateful letter by spotting Olivia's Lucrece seal ).

Joseph Sobran's book, Alias Shakespeare, includes Oxford's known poetry in an appendix with what he considers extensive verbal parallels with the work of Shakespeare, and he argues that Oxford's poetry is comparable in quality to some of Shakespeare's early work, such as Titus Andronicus.

In 2010 a live cover by Titus Andronicus of " Roadrunner " was released on the fan compilation Feats of Strength.

Olivier and Leigh in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus

In 1953, Leigh recovered sufficiently to play The Sleeping Prince with Olivier ; and, in 1955, they performed a season at Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus.

She joined Olivier for a European tour with Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company.

Kenneth Tynan ridiculed Leigh's performance opposite Olivier in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus, commenting that she " receives the news that she is about to be ravished on her husband's corpse with little more than the mild annoyance of one who would have preferred foam rubber.

One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a few years later with Romeo and Juliet.

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* Titus Andronicus, 1594, 1600, 1611

In Titus Andronicus ' 2007 debut, ' The Airing of Grievances ' a quote from The Stranger, followed by a track called ' Albert Camus ' are included

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Facsimile of the first page of The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus from the First Folio, published in 1623

Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593.

* Titus Andronicus – renowned Roman general

Their conflict seems set to boil over into violence until a tribune, Marcus Andronicus, announces that the people's choice for the new emperor is his brother, Titus, who will shortly return to Rome from a victorious ten-year campaign against the Goths.

Saturninus then denounces the Andronicus family for their effrontery and shocks Titus by marrying Tamora.

The story of Titus Andronicus is fictional, not historical, unlike Shakespeare's other Roman plays, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, all of which are based on real historical events and people.

Also favouring a later date, Grace Starry West argues, " the Rome of Titus Andronicus is Rome after Brutus, after Caesar, and after Ovid.

Bate speculates that this story, with one character called Titus and another called Andronicus, could be why several contemporary references to the play are in the form Titus & ondronicus.

Any discussion of the sources of Titus Andronicus is complicated by the existence of two other versions of the story ; a prose history and a ballad ( both of which are anonymous and undated ).

The first definite reference to the ballad, Titus Andronicus ' Complaint, is an entry in the Stationers ' Register by the printer John Danter on 6 February 1594, where the entry " A booke intitled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus " is immediately followed by " Entred also vnto finde that none in all that Authors Works ever receiv'd greater Alterations or Additions, the language not only Refin'd, but many Scenes entirely New: Besides most of the principal Characters heighten'd and the Plot much incresas'd.

Folger Shakespeare Library – Titus Andronicus, page 136-137, copyright 2005.

In 1970, Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt adapted the play into a German language comedy entitled Titus Andronicus: Komödie nach Shakespeare ( Titus Andronicus: A Comedy After Shakespeare ).

In 1989, Jeanette Lambermont directed a heavily edited kabuki version of the play at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in a double bill with The Comedy of Errors, starring Nicholas Pennell as Titus, Goldie Semple as Tamora, Hubert Baron Kelly as Aaron and Lucy Peacock as Lavinia.

In 2005, German playwright Botho Strauß adapted the play into Schändung: nach dem Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare ( Rape: After Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare ), also commonly known by its French name, Viol, d ' après Titus Andronicus de William Shakespeare.

In 2008, Müller's Anatomie Titus was translated into English by Julian Hammond and performed at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, the Canberra Theatre, the Playhouse in the Sydney Opera House and the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne by the Bell Shakespeare Company and the Queensland Theatre Company.

All references to Titus Andronicus, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Oxford Shakespeare ( Waith ), based on the Q1 text of 1594 ( except 3. 2, which is based on the folio text of 1623 ).

) The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ( The Arden Shakespeare, 1st Series ; London: Arden, 1912 )

) The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ( Signet Classic Shakespeare ; New York: Signet, 1963 ; revised edition, 1989 ; 2nd revised edition 2005 )

) Titus Andronicus ( The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series ; London: Arden, 1995 )

) Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays ( The RSC Shakespeare ; London: Macmillan, 2008 )

) Titus Andronicus ( The Pelican Shakespeare ; London: Penguin, 1966 ; revised edition 1977 )

The Romans sent colonists there and contributed new buildings to its cities, especially in the Agora of Athens, where the Agrippeia of Marcus Agrippa, the Library of Titus Flavius Pantaenus, and the Tower of the Winds, among others, were built.

Some verses composed by Gerard survive in unpublished form, now in the British Library manuscript collection as part of manuscript Cotton Titus D. xxiv.

Several emperors contributed new buildings to Greek cities, especially in the Athenian agora, where the Agrippeia of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the Library of Titus Flavius Pantaenus, and the Tower of the Winds, among others, were built.

During the Jewish-Roman wars, he was likely taken under the care of his uncle Titus Flavius Sabinus II, at the time serving as city prefect of Rome ; or possibly even Marcus Cocceius Nerva, a loyal friend of the Flavians and the future successor to Domitian.

As the eldest and most experienced of Vespasian's sons, Titus shared tribunician power with his father, received seven consulships, the censorship, and was given command of the Praetorian Guard ; powers which left no doubt he was the designated heir to the Empire.

Although he made no pretence regarding the significance of the Senate under his absolute rule, those senators he deemed unworthy were expelled from the Senate, and in the distribution of public offices he rarely favoured family members ; a policy which stood in contrast to the nepotism practiced by Vespasian and Titus.

Titus and a brother whose name is not given were probably the bearers of the letter to the church at Corinth ( 2 Corinthians 2: 13 ; 8: 6, 16 – 18 ).

They have, by the help of Divine Providence, overcome all obstacles, and have made themselves free ... I know not by what misfortune, we are fallen into the error of those, who poised the Emperor Titus to make room for Domitian, who made away Augustus that they might have Tiberius, and changed Claudius for Nero ... whereas the people of England are now renowned, all over the world, for their great virtue and discipline ; and yet suffer an idiot, without courage, without sense, nay, without ambition, to have dominion in a country of liberty.

* Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone ( by himself ; several editions include an abundance of illustrations, on plates in the center and / or distributed through the text )

Similar counsel is repeated in the first chapter of the Epistle of Titus ; however, the redactor of 1 Corinthians ( chapter 7, verse 2 ) writes, " Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

: 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4, 20-23 ; John 14: 1-3 ; Matthew 24: 30 ; Titus 2: 13 ; John 17: 3 ; 1 John 5: 11-13 ; 1 Corinthians 15: 42-44 ; John 10: 27-28 ; John 6: 40

Whereby it comes to pass that they are all three liberated by Octavianus ; and Titus gives Gisippus his sister to wife, and shares with him all his substance.

In July 69, Vitellius learned that the armies of the eastern provinces had proclaimed a rival emperor ; their commander, Titus Flavius Vespasianus.

Josephus describes multiple tortures and positions of crucifixion during the Siege of Jerusalem as Titus crucified the rebels ; and Seneca the Younger recounts: " I see crosses there, not just of one kind but made in many different ways: some have their victims with head down to the ground ; some impale their private parts ; others stretch out their arms on the gibbet.

I was very sorry at this in my mind, and went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them ; so he immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery ; yet two of them died under the physician's hands, while the third recovered.