Young Lucius
Also known as: Lucius · Family: Andronicus · Role: boy · First appears: Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene II
In Act III, Scene II, Young Lucius urges Titus Andronicus to stop lamenting, saying, “Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments.” He also asks Lavinia to be cheered by a pleasing tale.
In Act IV, Scene I, he calls Marcus his uncle and reassures Titus Andronicus, Marcus, and Lavinia that they are among friends. He kneels with them and swears to pursue mortal revenge against the traitorous Goths; when he proposes attacking them with his dagger, Titus Andronicus rejects the immediate attack and says he will teach him another course. In Act IV, Scene II, Lucius is identified as his parent.
Relationship record
Life events
- Titus, Marcus, Lavinia, and Young Lucius swear to pursue mortal revenge against the traitors.(Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene I)
- With: Titus Andronicus Marcus Lavinia
- “My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel; And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector’s hope; And swear with me, as, with the woeful fere And father of that chaste dishonoured dame, Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece’ rape, That we will prosecute, by good advice Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths, And see their blood, or die with this reproach.”
- Titus rejects Lucius’s immediate dagger attack and announces a different course against the perpetrators.(Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene I)
- With: Titus Andronicus
- “YOUNG LUCIUS. Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire. TITUS. No, boy, not so. I’ll teach thee another course.”
Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene II
- with Titus Andronicus (Titus is Young Lucius's grandfather.) “Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments.”
- elder kin: Lavinia (Lavinia is Young Lucius's aunt.) “Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.”
- elder kin: Titus Andronicus “Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments.”
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene I
- elder kin: Titus Andronicus “Help, grandsire, help! My aunt Lavinia”
- elder kin: Marcus “Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes!”
- elder kin: Lavinia “Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt Loves me as dear as e’er my mother did”
- friends with Titus Andronicus “Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none but friends”
- friends with Marcus “Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none but friends”
- friends with Lavinia “Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none but friends”
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene II
- parent: Lucius “Demetrius, here’s the son of Lucius;”
- elder kin: Titus Andronicus “My lords, with all the humbleness I may, I greet your honours from Andronicus; [Aside.] And pray the Roman gods confound you both. DEMETRIUS. Gramercy, lovely Lucius. What’s the news? YOUNG LUCIUS. [Aside.] That you are both deciphered, that’s the news, For villains marked with rape. [Aloud.] May it please you, My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me”
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III
- elder kin: Titus Andronicus “Thy grandsire loved thee well. Many a time he danced thee on his knee, Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow;”
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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.