William Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus.
The plays written by English poet , playwright , and actor William Shakespeare ( 1564 -- 1616 ) have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature . As a child , Shakespeare would likely have seen this type of play ( along with , perhaps , mystery plays and miracle plays ) . Titus Andronicus is the main character and tragic hero in William Shakespeare 's play of the same name , Titus Andronicus , a Senecan tragedy . William Shakespeare . His extant works , including collaborations , consist of approximately 38 plays , 154 sonnets , two long narrative poems , and a few other verses , some of uncertain authorship . William Shakespeare's collaborations . Some of the following attributions , such as The Two Noble Kinsmen , have well-attested contemporary documentation ; others , such as Titus Andronicus , are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars ; recent work on computer analysis of textual style ( word use , word and phrase patterns ) has given reason to believe that parts of some of the plays ascribed to Shakespeare are actually by other writers .