<p>With the Emperor dead, his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, quarrel over who should succeed him; but neither are as popular as the general Titus Andronicus, returned to Rome victorious after a ten-year campaign, with Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her three sons as his prisoners. Eschewing the throne, he endorses Saturninus as successor, and sacrifices the Queen&#39;s son Alarbus in memory of his own, lost in the war. But when the new emperor spurns Titus&#39;s amity and chooses Tamora for his wife, she quickly begins to plot a murderous revenge of barely conceivable cruelty.</p>