The Real Heroe

Who is the actual hero in Titus Andronicus ? Titus Andronicus was an early, experimental tragedy by William Shakespeare, produced in 1593-94 and published in a quarto edition from foul papers in 1594. The First Folio version was prepared from a copy of the quarto, with additions from a manuscript that has been used as a promptbook. The play's crude, melodramatic style and its many savage incidents led many critics to believe it was not written by …

…is an odd ending to Titus Andronicus. This is because the answer to his rhetorical question is the moral of Shakespeare's play. A body which is wrathful and furious is necessarily out of accord with itself, and so, of course, it does not possess the human ability that is reliant on the synchronized work of mouth, tongue, throat, and diaphragm. The city of Rome is about to win that fine synchronicity when the play ends.