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24 October 2017updated 09 Sep 2021 6:02pm

Why it’s right for Titus Andronicus to come with a trigger warning

Cambridge University is warning students of Shakespearean violence and gore. And so it should.

By Erin Weinberg

(Photo By Photo: Arquivo Pessoal da Fotografa/Wikimedia Commons)

Trigger warning: this article features discussions of sexual violence and suicide. 

Few undergraduate students are familiar with Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare’s spin on Senecan tragedy takes traditional tropes of the genre and adds excess to excess.

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