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

William Shakespeare's play entitled Titus Andronicus is structured around a series of promises or oaths. Anderson examines how the vows or promises--oaths that link two participants--are entangled with the horrific violence that characterizes the play. He argues that Titus Andronicus deconstructs notions of intention with repeated representations of the vow's integration with shocking evidence.