The smell and taste of sweet revenge. Titus Andronicus is a revenge tragedy in that it revolves around an endless bloody cycle of vengeance that massacres many important political figures and nearly annihilates Rome. There is no question that revenge is on the minds of the two main characters of the story, Rome’s Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) and the Queen of the Goths, Tamora (Jessica Lange). We learn at the start of the play and movie that Rome has been at war against the Goths. Many of Titus’ sons have been killed and he feels obliged to sacrifice Tamora’s son Alarbus, in memory of his deceased sons. Alarbus’ murder ignites a fire in Tamora to exact revenge on her enemy by targeting his beautiful, chaste daughter Lavinia. Tamora’s
