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    Shakespeare uses aspects of another author's work to base the violent disfigurement of Titus Andronicus' daughter. Who is that author?

    Question #40410. Asked by mancandy. (Oct 26 03 12:05 PM)


    MaggieG 5

    		Petrarch?

    Oct 26 03, 12:16 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		Or could it be Seneca
    "The Roman dramatist Seneca (4-65 A.D.), a tutor to Emperor Nero, wrote plays that described in elaborate detail the grisly horror of murder and revenge. After Elizabethans began translating Seneca's works in 1559, writers read and relished them, then wrote plays imitating them. Shakespeare appears to have seasoned Titus Andronicus and a later play, Macbeth, with some of Seneca's ghoulish condiments."
    http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/Titus.html

    Oct 26 03, 1:02 PM
    mibmob

    		Titus has elements of Seneca's Phaedra.

    Oct 26 03, 1:15 PM
    mancandy

    		Sorry!!! I meant...Titus' daughter has her hands cut off and her tongue cut out..like Philomel..the answer is Ovid...I phrased it wrong..so sorry. BTW-It is senecan tragedy!!!
    (Shakespeare adds the cutting of the arms off-b/c Philomel sews the name of her rapist and reveals his identity that way-)

    Oct 26 03, 7:05 PM
    gmackematix

    		Yes. I think Philomel's tale appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

    Oct 27 03, 1:27 AM
    mibmob

    		Tereu, Tereu she goes as she's turned into a nightingale and sings her rapist's name.

    Oct 27 03, 12:18 PM
    mancandy

    		mibmob...I thought Philomel sewed her rapist's name into a quilt, b/c her tongue was cut out. Shakespeare blatantly calls Titus' daughter a "philomel" but the birs thing sounds familiar. Can Philomel sing as she metamorphasizes?

    Oct 28 03, 12:42 AM

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