Shakespeare, Slightly Abridged: Titus Andronicus
CalhounK for Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus is a brilliant war General. He has been fighting for Rome for many years with his eldest son Lucius by his side. They have captured the enemy Queen and her sons. The trials and tribulations that follow these events are more terrible then one could imagine.
(Will need a death scream/ sound from this character, so fit it into the end of your recording please, stabbed with a sword.)
(You are a celebrated general who has returned from war. You are laying to rest in your family catacombs 21 of your sons [He had 27 children] The tone is ceremonial and proud.)
"Rome's readiest Champions, repose you here in rest,Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.
Here lurks no treason, Here no envy swells..."(Your children have betrayed you. You answer only to the Emperor. The tone is bitter with contempt, and sorrow,)
"Nor thou, nor he are any sons of mine.
My sons would never so dishonor me.Traitor restore Lavinia to the Emperor!"(You are at the lowest point you have ever been in your life, but you are also crying your defiance to the skies and to the gods, your daughter has been brutalized and mangled, two of your remaining sons have been beheaded, your eldest son has been banished for trying to save them, and you just let the Moor cut off your hand.)
"If there were reasons for these miseries,Then into limits could I bind my woes.
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?I the earth. Overflowed and drowned."
