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Andronicus I

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Andronicus I (Andronicus Comnenus) (ăndrənī`kəs kŏmnē`nəs), 1120?–1185, Byzantine emperor (1183–85), nephew of John II. He acceded to the throne by strangling his cousin Alexius II Alexius II (Alexius Comnenus), 1168–83, Byzantine emperor (1180–83), son and successor of Manuel I. His mother, Mary of Antioch, who was regent for him, alienated the population by favoring the Latin element in Constantinople.
..... Click the link for more information. . Though notorious in his younger years for his scandalous morals, he was a competent, if cruel, ruler. He took strict measures to protect the peasants against the great landowners, enforced honesty on the tax collectors, and was the terror of corrupt officials. His severity and his failure to stop the rapid advance of William II William II (William the Good), c.1153–1189, king of Sicily (1166–89), son and successor of William I. He married (1177) Joan, daughter of Henry II of England.
..... Click the link for more information.  of Sicily against the capital led to his overthrow and the elevation of Isaac II Isaac II (Isaac Angelus) , d. 1204, Byzantine emperor (1185–95, 1203–4). The great grandson of Alexius I, he was proclaimed emperor by the mob that had killed the unpopular Andronicus I.
..... Click the link for more information. . Andronicus was tortured to death by the rabble. He was the last of the Comneni to hold the throne of Constantinople.
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20 Musselburgh Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, believed to have been written in 1584.
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SHAKESPEARE'S Titus Andronicus is a 16th-Century bloodbath epic.
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Repeatedly, Leggatt refers back to Titus: as he puts it in the book's conclusion, "As the ideas of violation and identity develop through these seven tragedies we see a series of reactions and contradictions as one play ricochets against another; and we see an internalization of what in Titus Andronicus is physical and literal" (205).
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity by Anderson, Linda / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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