JUNIUS BRUTUS, }Consuls.
VALERIUS PUBLICOLA. }
TITUS, Son of Brutus.
TULLIA, Daughter of Tarquin.
ALGINA, Confidante of Tullia.
ARUNS, Ambassador from Porsenna.
MESSALA, Friend of Titus.
PROCULUS, A military Tribune.
ALBINUS, Confidant of Aruns.
Senators. Lictors.
SCENE ROME.
This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire’s spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as, perhaps, too painful for representation. When revived during the Revolution it was enthusiastically applauded.