
Shakespeare Book Club
Wed, Jul 16
|Birch Tree Books & Plants
Join us for our discussion of works of Shakespeare with your host Laura.


Time & Location
Jul 16, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books & Plants, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy Titus Andronicus on Bookshop.org
The authoritative edition of Titus Andronicus from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome’s wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views as disloyalty to Rome. Yet Rome has become “a wilderness of tigers.” After a death sentence is imposed on two of his three remaining sons, and his daughter is raped and mutilated, Titus turns his loyalty toward his family.
Aaron the Moor, a magnificent villain and the empress’s secret lover, makes a similar transition. After the empress bears him a child, Aaron devotes himself to preserving the baby. Retaining his thirst for evil, he shows great tenderness to his little family—a tenderness…