ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to be one of William Shakespeare’s plays.

Detailed explanation-2: -Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, is a simple melodrama, frankly imitative of Seneca.

Detailed explanation-4: -They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Titus Andronicus, an early, experimental tragedy by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1589–92 and published in a quarto edition from an incomplete draft in 1594.

Detailed explanation-5: -Despite its Roman setting, Titus Andronicus is not an historical play and its sources are a mixture of medieval and classical myth and legend. It owes much to the tale of the rape of Philomel in Ovid’s Metamorphses and a copy of this is actually used by Lavinia in the play to explain what has happened to her.