Note 32 — SHAKSPERE GALLERY
Reading edition
The figure with the helmet is unquestionably that of Marius, the tribune. He enters from the street and is drest in street costume. Titus, who has been in the house, wears only a fillet around his hed. In the play, Marius commands the boy to stand near him for refuge, but in the picture the moment just previous is chosen, when the boy is still near his grandfather. Forster wrongly holds that the helmeted figure is Titus.