The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Roman Empress Tamora kills & rapes the children of general, Titus, for killing her son. Titus feigns madness. His last son, Lucius, invades. His father exacts culinary vengeance on Tamora.

(With fourteen killings, nine on stage, six severed members, rape aplenty, one live burial, one case of insanity and one of cannibalism Titus Andronicus averages 5.2 atrocities per act, or one atrocity every 97 lines and is certainly Shakespeare's bloodiest play although some scholars maintain that it was jointly written with George Peel.)