...eved to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It lost popularity during the Victorian era because of its gore, and it has only recently seen its fortunes revive....

...from a desert monastery who feels called to continue his religious life in the city. He discovers a sister, who is a prostitute living with a band of Goths. Other characters include Hypatia, a lady philosopher based on a historical personage; Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria; Felix, the Roman prefect; a Jewish man who has lost his faith; and an elderly Jewish woman who is like ...

...Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them, made an attempt to attribute this calamity to the Christian religion, and began to blaspheme the true God with even more than ...

... in love with Lavinia. TITUS ANDRONICUS: a noble Roman, general against the Goths. MARCUS ANDRONICUS : tribune of the people, and brother to Titus. ... ...ora. A Captain, Tribune, Messenger, and Clown; Romans. TAMORA: Queen of the Goths. LAVINIA: daughter of Titus Andronicus. A Nurse . (Nurse:) Senato... ...alls: He by the senate is accited home From weary wars against the barbarous Goths; That, with his sons, a terror to our foes, Hath yoked a nation str... ...RONICUS; and then TAMORA, with ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, AARON, and other Goths, prison ers; Soldiers and people following. The Bearers set down t... ...at I bring unto their latest home, With burial amongst their ancestors: Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword. Titus, unkind and careless... ... wilt never render to me more! LUCIUS: Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths, That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile Ad manes fratrum sacrific... ...ndronicus Act I, scene i 6 pardon me. These are their brethren, whom you Goths beheld Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain Religiously the... ...revenge Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent, May favor Tamora, the Queen of Goths— When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen— To quit the bloody wro... ...l your hopes: madam, he comforts you Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths. Lavinia, you are not displeased with this? LAVINIA: Not I, my lor...

...cius. He came to the throne at a moment of great public embarrassment. The Goths were now beginning to press southwards upon the empire. Dacia they ha... ...pendence, they would, under their native kings, have made head against the Goths. But, being compelled to assume the character of Roman citizens, they... ...r of Roman citizens, they had lost their warlike qualities. From Dacia the Goths had descended upon Moesia; and, passing the Danube, they laid siege t... ...of his sister. The inhabitants paid a heavy ransom for their town; and the Goths were persuaded for the present to return home. But sooner than was ex... ...of Nicopolis, when Decius came in sight at the head of the Roman army. The Goths retired, but it was to Thrace; and, in the conquest of Philippopolis,... ...eir forced retreat and disappointment. Decius pursued, but the king of the Goths turned suddenly upon him; the emperor was obliged to fly; the Roman c... ... moment he had some par- tial successes. He cut off several detachments of Goths, on their road to reinforce the enemy; and he strengthened the fortre... ... But his last success was the means of his total ruin. He came up with the Goths at Forum T erebronii, and, having surrounded their position, their de... ...tion seemed inevitable. A great battle ensued, and a mighty victory to the Goths. Nothing is now known of the circumstances, except that the third lin...

...ken. There is no doubt that, in the days when the king- doms of the Scando-Goths reached from the North Cape to the Caspian, that some earlier great k... ...less historical actors in mid- European history , as Theodoric of the East-Goths, for instance. The whole of the earlier part of the story has disappe... ...e young lord Oaths of love. “Thereafter gat I Mid the folk of the Goths, For Helmgunnar the old, Swift journey to Hell, And gave to ... ...thing seemly For Sigurd to rule Giuki’s house And the folk of the Goths, When of him five sons For the slaying of men, Eager for bat... ...y asked If he would buy life, But life with gold That king of the Goths. Nobly spake Gunnar, Great lord of the Niblungs; “Hogni’s bl... ... In the highway of warriors; Grey horses that know The roads of the Goths. — “Little like are ye grown T o that Gunnar of old days! 188 ... ...again His mother to see The spear-god laid low In the land of the Goths. That one arvel mayst thou For all of us drink, For sister S... ...d her, And goodly raiment, Or ever I gave her T o the folk of the Goths. That was the hardest Of my heavy woes, When the bright hair... ...ck On the war-beaten way, Grey horses that go On the roads of the Goths. “All alone am I now As in holt is the aspen; As the fir-tre...

...; A second Deluge Learning thus o’er run, And the Monks finish’d what the Goths begun. “An Essay on Criticism” – Pope 20 At length, Erasmus, that...

...oke is made thus, Should againe the ravenous Vandals and Goths inundate us, Learning were safe; in this our Universe Schooles...

... All this rush’d with his blood—Shall he expire, And unavenged? Arise ye Goths and glut your ire.’ Sacred vestals, tender mothers, fat, good-humored... ... of Rome were coming nearer and nearer, and Alaric, the great chief of the Goths, led his forces into Italy, and threatened the city itself. Honorius,... ...ut his brave 89 Yo n g e general, Stilicho, assembled his forces, met the Goths at Pollentia (about twenty-five miles from where Turin now stands), a... ...scarred and disfigured to render them more frightful. The old enemies, the Goths and the Franks, seemed like friends compared with these formi- dable ... ...oman general, hurrying from Italy, had united his troops with those of the Goths and Franks, and given Attila so terrible a defeat at Chalons that the... ...y after another yielded to the persevering advances of the children of the Goths; and in 1291 the nephew of our own beloved Eleanor of Castille, Sanch...

...of those ages, to whose polite wisdom and letters we owe that we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders, I could name him who from his private house wrote t...

... 356 And will Create thee Empresse of Rome. 357 Speake Queene of Goths dost thou applau’d my choyse? 358 And heere I sweare by all the ...

...hee and thy goats, as the most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths. JAQUES: [Aside] O knowledge ill inhabited, worse than Jove in a th...

...sh reader,’ ‘the barbarous reader?’ Doubtless there is no such person. The Goths and Vandals are all confined to the writ- ers. ‘The reader’—that grea... ...l and athletic, he must be reminded that to T ramontanes, in fact, such as Goths, Heruli, Scyrra, Lombards, and other tribes of the Rhine, Lech, or Da...

...once a Roman altar; others on the steps of one of the Chris- tian shrines. Goths and barbarians though they were, they chatted as gayly together as if... ...ic visions, —intimations of all the future ca- lamities of Rome,—shades of Goths, and Gauls, and even of the French soldiers of to-day. It was a pity ...

...a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a...

..., and Doldamer, lord of that lean and meagre country, known as the land of Goths. Acil, the King of the Danes; Lot, who was King of Norway, and Gonfal...

...once a Roman altar; others on the steps of one of the Chris- tian shrines. Goths and barbarians though they were, they chatted as gayly together as if... ...ic visions, —intimations of all the future ca- lamities of Rome,—shades of Goths, and Gauls, and even of the French soldiers of to-day. It was a pity ...

...Feudal- ism!’ (I wonder what they imagine feudalism to be?) ‘Down with the Goths and Paralytics.’ I suppose the Señores Gamacho and Fuentes knew what ... ...ame I have forgotten. Thence they have is- sued a communication to us, the Goths and Paralyt- ics of the Amarilla Club (who have our own com- mittee),... ...s, aimed at robbing poor people of their lands, and with the help of these Goths and paralytics, the aristocrats would convert them into toiling and m...

...od; A second deluge Learning thus o’errun, And the Monks finish’d what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory of the ...

...name under which Dietrich’s land appears. Theodorich, the king of the East Goths, belonged to the race of the Amali. (4) “Feast.” That Kriemhild kisse...