# Nurse — Titus Andronicus character guide

> Nurse in Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Nurse O gentle Aaron, Nurse Aaron, Nurse Cornelia

**First appearance:** 0000-titus-andronicus

## Snapshot

Tamora's attendant, sent to hand Aaron his newborn son with instructions to kill the child, and killed herself for knowing too much.

## Who they are

The Nurse arrives at Aaron's side carrying the empress's blackamoor baby, calling it the empress's shame and Rome's disgrace, and relaying Tamora's order that Aaron christen it with his dagger's point. She is a go-between in the worst sense, a servant who has seen too much of her mistress's secret and expects Aaron to solve it. Aaron takes the child instead, and her usefulness ends there; she matters because she is the first to name the scandal aloud and the first to pay for it.

## In the story

### [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/titus_andronicus_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-ii)

Brings Aaron's child to him and is killed by Aaron to keep the secret.

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