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 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.

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.

A little known cinematic adaptation came in 2000, William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, directed by Richard Griffin, starring Nigel Gore as Titus, Zoya Pierson as Tamora, Kevin Butler as Aaron and Molly Lloyd as Lavinia.

) Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus: The First Quarto, 1594 ( New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1936 )

" Shakespeare's Brothers and Peele's Brethren Titus Andronicus again ", Notes and Queries ", 44: 4 ( November 1997 ), 494 – 495

" The History of Titus Andronicus and Shakespeare's Play ", Notes and Queries, 22: 4 ( Winter, 1975 ), 163 – 166

" A Stylometric Comparison of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Pericles and Julius Caesar ", Shakespeare Newsletter, 29: 1 ( Spring, 1979 ), 42

Shakespeare's Earliest Tragedy: Studies in Titus Andronicus ( Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996 )

" Going by the Book: Classical Allusions in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ", Studies in Philology, 79: 1 ( Spring 1982 ), 62 – 77

Other popular adaptations of Shakespeare's plays that relied on anachronisms in props and setting were Titus ( 1999 ) and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ).

Over the course of the next three years, four plays with their name on the title page were published ; Christopher Marlowe's Edward II ( published in quarto in July 1593 ), and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ( published in quarto in 1594 ), The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York ( published in octavo in 1595 ) and The Taming of a Shrew ( published in quarto in May, 1594 ).

Shakespeare's tragedy Titus Andronicus derives some of its plot elements from the story of Thyestes.

* The story of Philomel is a key plot element in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.

Honigmann also agrees, in his ' early start ' theory of 1982 ( which argues that Shakespeare's first play was Titus Andronicus, which Honigmann posits was written in 1586 ).

The location was also used as the headquarters of Mayflower Industries in the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk and served as a backdrop for scenes from the 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

** Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia ( adapted from Shakespeare's play )

Since plague tends to abate in winter, some performances take place then ; Lord Strange's Men act a play called Titus — perhaps Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus — three times in January.

Honigmann for example, dissents from the most common dating of the plays with his " early start theory " by pushing back the beginning of Shakespeare's career four or five years beginning with the composition of Titus Andronicus in 1586 instead of following Chambers.

Plays that have been assigned to ( or blamed on ) Peele include Locrine, The Troublesome Reign of King John, and Parts 1 and 2 of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy, in addition to Titus Andronicus.

Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.

The arena has also been used for cinematic works such as Titus, a 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

Shakespeare's use of it in All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure followed his sources for the plays ( stories by Boccaccio and Cinthio ); nevertheless Oxfordians say that de Vere was drawn to these stories because they " paralleled his own ", based on Osborne's anecdote.

Although early editions of the work were published with the spelling " Shakspeare ", after Bowdler's death, later editions ( from 1847 ) adopted the spelling " Shakespeare ", reflecting changes in the standard spelling of Shakespeare's name.

In Act 3, Scene VI of Shakespeare's Macbeth ( c. 1603 – 06 ) Lennox refers to Edward as " the most pious Edward ," and in Act 4, Scene III, Malcolm describes his powers of healing those afflicted with " the evil ", or scrofula.

Thomas Gray, the 18th-century poet, combined Marlowe's depiction of Isabella with William Shakespeare's description of Margaret of Anjou ( the wife of Henry VI ) as the " She-Wolf of France ", to produce the anti-French poem The Bard, in which Isabella rips apart the bowels of Edward II with her " unrelenting fangs ".

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

The subsequent single-only release " Shakespeare's Sister " reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart, although the only single taken from the album, " That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore ", was less successful, barely making the top 50.

" Shakespeare's Lost Source-Plays ", Modern Language Review, 49: 1 ( Spring, 1954 ), 293 – 307

* "' Caparisoned like the horse ': Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ", by LaRue Love Sloan ; Early Modern Literary Studies, 10: 2 ( September, 2004 ), 1 – 24.

" This speech is full of dramatic irony, because in Shakespeare's time Cleopatra really was played by a " squeaking boy ", and Shakespeare's play does depict Antony's drunken revels.

", from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.

Some critics, among them W. W. Lawrence, consider it to be one of Shakespeare's " problem plays ", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.

:* In William Shakespeare's " Hamlet ", the character Ophelia climbed a willow tree ; when a branch broke and dropped her into the river below, she drowned.

In Shakespeare's " Twelfth Night ", Viola ( disguised as Cesario ) tells Olivia " Make me a willow-cabin at your gate / And call upon my soul within the house.

In Shakespeare's " Othello ", Desdemona's song before her death uses the willow imagery to highlight her lost love.