This revenge tragedy of William Shakespeare shows the adventures of a general returning from a succesful military campaign. His name contains a Greek & an Italian part ...
According to the New Chronology, Andronicus is a partial duplicate of Jesus Christ, but also Titus is a candidate: Flavius Josephus might have been inpired by the life of the future emperor to create the character of the saviour to pacify the Jews. As well as Julius Caesar, he got deified and both of them won a famous seven year lasting war: Do these similarities hint to a partial duplicate?
The daughter of the protagonist bears the name of the second wife of Aeneas: According to Virgil, Turnus was the foreseen groom, but due to a dream Latinus changed his mind. Shakespreare wrote she was promised to Saturninus, but fell in love with his brother and fled with him. Is the character of the foreseen groom based on the king of the Rutulians?
However, in the revenge tragedy, Tamora and her surviving sons manage to kill Bassianus and rape Lavinia, whereas in the epic poem Turnus got killed earlier, so the storyline is different. Some authors identify the mentioned king as Titus, so might the inspiration for the mentioned rape come from the Abduction of the Sabine Women?
That event led to a shared reign of Titus & Romulus: After six years of mutual reign, the king of the Sabines got killed over a dispute. This resembles the fate of Remus: Gary Forsythe even claims the mentioned king was the first ruler of Rome, Romulus & Remus are only mythical characters in his opinion, as might the eldest sons of Adam & Eve be ...
According to the New Chronology, the life of the saviour inspired the author of the mentioned revenge tragedy a lot, cause also Hamlet, MacDuff & Apemantus seem to be partial duplicates of him, sometimes in a combination with John the Baptist. On the other hand, Lear & Henry VIII seem to be duplicates of Ivan the Terrible. His oeuvre is contemperary to that of Joseph Scaliger ...
