Myth, Historical Metaphor, and Figuration: Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus.

A literary criticism is presented of the book "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare. Aaron, its villain, thinks mythically, reducing metaphors, myths, and their aestheticizing of violence to physical actuality, with Lavinia as the prime exhibit of both physical brutality and the myth of Philomela. Recent criticism that centers on Moorish identity, or identities, and related issues of racial alterity has proposed.