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- Title
'SUUM CUIQUE': NATURAL LAW IN TITUS ANDRONICUS, I.i.284.
- Authors
Hadfield, Andrew
- Abstract
This article focuses on the book "Titus Andronicus," by William Shakespeare and edited by Jonathan Bate. In Titus, the violation is simply a prelude to a cycle of revenge that brings Rome to its knees and delivers it to the Gothic army at the end of the play. Fictitious character Bassianus may be acting justly in preventing fictitious character Lavinia from being led off stage by fictitious character Saturninus, and within a suum cuique tradition. But the forces ranged against this tradition will prove too powerful and will overwhelm it in the next act, leading eventually to the destruction of Rome.
- Subjects
ROME; TITUS Andronicus (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; FICTIONAL characters; REVENGE; ARMIES; RETRIBUTION; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2005, Vol 52, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gji220