In Shakespeare’S Titus Andronicus, the Audience Are Confronted With a Nightmarish Series of Violent Acts, Increasing In Ferocity and Volume, Which Culminate In the Roman General Titus Feeding Tamora, Queen of the Goths, Her Sons ‘Baked In a Pie Whereof Their Mother Has Daintily Fed’. Most of the Play’S Popularity Has Been Founded Upon the Vivid Depictions and Accounts of Brutality, Which Start In State Sanctioned Execution, Worsen to Rape and Mutilation, and Climax In Cannibalism. There Is No Doubt That the Scale and Manner of the Violence In Titus Andronicus Is Horrific, But the Meaning and Symbolic Importance of the Actions Has Sometimes Been Ignored. This Paper Will Discuss the Essence of the Violence In the Book, and Argue Two Points Firstly, That the Spiralling Offences Emanate from a Lack of Control Over Legally Sanctioned Violence and Secondly, That Tamora’S Consumption of Her Sons Is a Sort of Incest, a Taboo Representing the Climax of Nightmarish Transgression In the Book. the Juridical Violence Portrayed In the Early Stages of the Play Is a Discourse That Pervades the Entire Plot, Which the Roman Characters Use As a Means of Establishing and Perpetuating Authority. Tamora's Actions Contradict Traditional Conceptions of Female Characters, As She Acts Out a Performative Hybrid Sexuality That Is Juxtaposed With the More Passive and Blatantly Feminine Lavinia, the Daughter of Titus. Shakespeare's Strong Emphasis on Violence In the Play Forces the Audience to View Them I ...