By teasing out the specific textual places where Jan Vos's bloody masterpiece Aran enTitus, of Wraak en Weerwraak (Aran and Titus, or Revenge and Revenge in Retaliation;1638, published 1641) starts to produce 'faultlines' that ultimately undermine the tragedy'sdominant claim, this articles shows that an altemative, dissident perspective mightbe uncovered, to which the existing interpretations of Vos's play have paid little to nocritical attention. Moreover this contribution wishes to demonstrate that the play seemsto engage in the discursive context of the Dutch Republic's ideological divergencebetween the political and the military discourse during the reign of stadtholder FredrickHenry in the late 1630s.
