Shakespeare's impressive early revenge drama as the 19th volume of the bilingual dtv Shakespeare Edition - in an original new translation by Frank Günther. After ten years of war, General Titus Andronicus returns victorious to Rome. He has lost all but four of his once twenty sons. The hostages in his power are Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, and her three sons. According to custom, Titus orders the oldest of the three to be sacrificed in honor of the fallen Romans. Tamora plots bitter revenge: she seduces the new ruler Saturninus and marries him. This places the queen in a position that allows her to orchestrate a treacherous game of revenge. A gruesome, self-perpetuating mechanism of murder and slaughter is set in motion, resulting in a total of fourteen corpses, including a live burial, madness, and cannibalism. Thus unfolds the bloody tale.