ABSTRACT

The first two of the six chapters of the chap-book history describe how Titus Andronicus raised the siege of Rome but was forced to fight for ten more years, during which he slew Tottilius, King of the Goths, and captured his queen, Attava, himselflosing many of his twenty-five sons in battIe. Tottilius's sons Alaricus and Abonus continued the struggle until the Emperor obtained peace by marrying Attava. By opposing this union, for fear of the Emperor's weakness and Attava's bad influence, Andronicus excited the latter's hatred. She had him exiled but he was recalled owing to the popular outcry.