"What Is Written Shall Be Executed": "Nude Contracts" and "Lively Warrants" in Titus Andronicus.

Examines how vows or promises are entangled with the violence that characterizes William Shakespeare's play "Titus Andronicus." Ways in which the play's major characters are implicated in a linguistic system that seems to exceed the character who speaks, or fails to speak; Integration of promissory language and violence; Problematic nature of oaths and vows in the play.