Shakespeare's Intentions in the Writting of Titus

Personally, I don't think Shakespeare had any specific intention in mind (in terms of parody, pastiche, and camp) when he wrote Titus. I think that it was his first tragedy and he was unsure how to portray his thoughts and to what extent he should carry them out to, and in keeping with the time period, his gory, exagerated portrayal is not that out of the ordinary. All of the major plays of that time were extremely gory and more than over the top and exagerated, so Titus does seem to "fit in." Also, if he did not make the scenes so attention grabbing and shocking by means of violence, weaponry, blood, etc... the play would not stand out in the minds of viewers, or it may not even have made it to the stage. Nobody wants to read about/view a play about everyday ordinary people with average lives, we as an audience are much more interested in the lives of people different than ourselves (may it be those a part of a drama, comedy, romance, action, horror, or any genre that exposes us to a life different than our own). Therefore, to please this audience, in any time period, an author must be over the top and must make scences memorable to make a name for himself. This is not uncommon for Shakespere, all of the characters in all of his plays seem to be extremely dramatic, for example Romeo and Juliet falling in love and soon dying for that love in about a weeks time, so the characters in Titus are not much more dramatic than any of his other characters, they just seem to stand out because they are dramatic in such a different way (blood/gore/violence instead of innocence and love.) In conclusion, I don't believe that Shakespeare had any intention of poking fun at any of the tragedies at that time nor do I think he was celebrating them, I believe he was just writting. Some may consider Titus to be camp, but there seems to a time issue with that title because at the time Titus was originally performed, people may not have been as shocked by it as we are, they may have considered it be a normal, average tragedy. Today some may say Titus is camp because we are comparing it to modern literature, but when compared to other plays from that time, I think many would change their minds.