Bassianus and Lavinia meet Tamora, Chiron, and Demetrius. When Saturninus arrives, he suspects they have murdered his brother. Lavinia is brought in by Chiron and Demetrius. She has been raped, her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out to keep her silent. With horror, Marcus discovers her. Act 3 Titus pleads for his sons as they are taken away to execution for murdering Bassianus.
Marcus brings in Lavinia. Titus, seeing her, is overcome with grief. Aaron enters to tell Titus that his sons will be spared if he will cut off his own hand and send it to the Emperor. Titus agrees.
Aaron cuts off the hand and takes it away. Titus swears revenge. He leaves to join the Goths against Saturninus. Titus, Marcus, and Lavinia sit together at a banquet. Marcus kills a fly, and Titus reproves him. When Marcus compares the fly to Aaron, Titus strikes at it. She takes a staff in her mouth and, guiding it with her stumps, writes out the names of her attackers, Chiron and Demetrius. Titus plots his revenge. He kills the nurse, to keep the birth secret. A messenger brings news that Lucius is marching on Rome, at the head of an army of Goths.
Tamora decides to persuade Titus to betray Lucius. Act 5 Lucius arrives with his army. Aaron, captured by a Goth, is brought before him with his baby son. Lucius agrees to spare the child if Aaron will betray Tamora, Chiron, and Demetrius.
Aaron tells him of their evil deeds. Tamora and her sons, disguised, visit Titus to offer help. He pretends not to recognise them, and agrees to invite Lucius to a banquet with the Emperor and Empress. When Tamora leaves, Titus seizes Chiron and Demetrius and cuts their throats. Then he discovers who raped Lavinia and severed her tongue and hands. She uses her stump hands to turn the pages of a book to the story of ravished Philomel. And, grasping a stick, she spells out the names of Tamora's sons in the sand.
Aaron realises that Titus has discovered the truth about the murder and rape. The queen wishes it to be killed because its dark skin betrays that Saturninus is not the father and that Aaron is. Aaron kills the nursemaid to prevent her spreading the story and flees with his son.
Titus is now seemingly deranged. He also sends two pigeons and a knife to the emperor. Saturninus kills the messenger and vows that Titus will die for his threats. During these events, Titus' banished son Lucius has joined the army of the Goths and leads them against Rome. Aaron and the infant are brought to him as prisoners.
She leaves her sons with him, where the ravaged Lavinia confronts them. Titus tells the sons that they will become meat to feed their mother and kills them with Lavinia's help. Titus arranges a banquet with Saturninus and Tamora as chief guests. He seats them beside the veiled Lavinia. Titus tells Saturninus about the story of Virginius, who killed his daughter to preserve her from shame.
As the emperor agrees Virginius was right, Titus stabs and kills Lavinia. Saturninus demands the princes be brought to him. Titus explains they are at the feast already; they are the meat in the pies that Tamora and the others are eating. Saturninus and Bassianus, sons of the deceased Emperor of Rome, challenge each other for the title of emperor. Titus Andronicus,…. He has Tamora…. Martius and Quintus are led off to execution. Aaron says their lives can be saved if Titus, Lucius, or Marcus….
In this scene, which is found in the Folio text but not in the Quarto, Titus is horrified when…. Lavinia finds a way to reveal to Titus the story of her rape and mutilation and the names of the…. Aaron arranges for a white baby to take…. Titus has his friends and family shoot arrows to which are attached messages to the gods begging that Justice as…. Saturninus, enraged at the messages on the arrows, reads the letter brought by the country fellow and sentences him to….
Aaron is captured by Lucius and his army of Goths. After Lucius swears to protect the baby, Aaron confesses to…. Tamora, disguised as Revenge, tells Titus she has come to his aid, and that if he will invite Lucius to….
At the feast, Titus serves the pie made from the bodies of Chiron and Demetrius. He then stabs Lavinia, reveals…. Titus Andronicus was first published in a quarto of Q ; this printing survives in only a singl
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