In Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s most violent play (14 murders total), no one is a good guy. But patriarch Titus comes off as the worst for killing his son and then his daughter, who has already been raped and mutilated. Predictably, this is one of The Bard’s least performed plays. For the story of another bad dad, read The Great Stork Derby, based on an actual contest in which a husband pressures his wife to have babies for cash and, fifty years later, learns the true value of fatherhood. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
