Shakespeare’s Worst Play “Titus Andronicus”, by William Shakespeare, is the first tragedy Shakespeare has ever written. This play has proven to be very controversial and usually banned in many schools because of its’ gory scenes and “over the top” deaths. It is the ultimate revenge tragedy with no decent humor, forgiveness, or redemption. This play, however, does lay a fundamental basis of the characters for the characters Shakespeare writes later on. Tamora could be seen as the early Lady Macbeth
The first act of William Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus presents the murder of a Goth, Alarbus. Alarbus was chopped up and thrown into the “sacrificing fire,” whose smoke now smells, “like incense [that] doth perfume the sky” (1.1.145). Titus Andronicus is demonstrative of Shakespeare’s later career in that it, quite literally, “sets the stage” for what is to come in some of Shakespeare’s later works. Shakespeare, just coming up as an exciting new playwright, realized that his works
predisposition, from personal destiny, or from mere interpretation? Is someone obliged to become a hero or villain by virtue of their existence, or are heroes and villains molded over time with an outcome that could potentially have gone either way? Analysing the preconceived ideas of Bastardy in Elizabethan society, it can be seen that the illegitimacy of Don John, “Shakespeare’s most passive villain” is the root of his villainy. Prejudgment, to pass judgement without sufficient reflection, can lead
inner predisposition, or mere interpretation from an outsider? Is someone obliged to become either a hero or villain by virtue of their existence, or are heroes and villains moulded over time from origins that could have taken either path? Analysing the preconceived ideas of Bastardy in Elizabethan society, it can be seen that the illegitimacy of Don John, “Shakespeare’s most passive villain” is the root of his villainy. Prejudgement, to pass judgement without sufficient knowledge, can lead to forming