At the end of this work, one of the characters is sentenced to be set "breast-deep in earth" and famished.  The title character's last line is "witness my knife's sharp point," which he uses to stab a woman before himself being stabbed by a son of an emperor who is himself immediately stabbed by Lucius.  Popular in the 18th century in a version pro
At the end of this work, one of the characters is sentenced to be set "breast-deep in earth" and famished.  The title character's last line is "witness my knife's sharp point," which he uses to stab a woman before himself being stabbed by a son of an emperor who is himself immediately stabbed by Lucius.  Popular in the 18th century in a version produced by Edward Ravenscroft, it features the brothers Bassianus and Saturninus, as well as the unsavory Chiron and Demetrius, who actually murdered Bassianus and raped Lavinia.  Featuring characters who are baked in a pie and another who carries a severed hand in her teeth, it centers on the schemes of Tamora, queen of the Goths, and Aaron the Moor.  FTP, name this early Shakespeare tragedy whose title character is a Roman general.
At the end of this work, one of the characters is sentenced to be set "breast-deep in earth" and famished.  
Titus Andronicus