Lavinia is a character in Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus. The daughter of the title character, Titus, she is raped by the two sons of the Empress Tamora, who are seeking revenge against her father for killing their brother. Her husband is murdered, and her tongue is cut out and her hands cut off in order to keep her from revealing who has violated her. She eventually, however, finds a way to write, by holding a pen in her teeth, and helps Titus kill the two men and cook their meet in a pie to be fed to their mother. In the final scene, Titus kills Lavinia, arguing that she is nothing but a shame and a disgrace to him.