The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece Criticism

• The Rape of Lucrece (Vol. 59)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Rape of Lucrece
    • Introduction to The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Woman, Language, and History in The Rape of Lucrece
    • Lucrece
  • Criticism: Gender Issues
    • Shakespeare and the Soil of Rape
    • ‘And Let Mild Women to Him Lose Their Mildness’: Philomela, Female Violence, and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece
    • Lucrece's Gaze
  • ‘This blemish'd fort’: The Rape of the Hearth in Shakespeare's Lucrece
  • Further Reading
• The Rape of Lucrece (Vol. 71)
  • Introduction
  • Vanishing Villains: The Role of Tarquin in Shakespeare's Lucrece
  • The Rape of Lucrece Dramatized in Los Angeles
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Shakespeare's Gaudy: The Method of The Rape of Lucrece
    • ‘Silence, like a Lucrece knife’: Shakespeare and the Meanings of Rape
    • Writing Lucrece: Shakespeare's ‘Virtuous Moment.’
    • Publishing Chastity: Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece
    • Tarquin Dispossessed: Expropriation and Consent in The Rape of Lucrece
  • Further Reading
• The Rape of Lucrece (Vol. 82)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • ‘What is Hecuba to Him or [S]he to Hecuba?’ Lucrece's Complaint and Shakespearean Poetic Agency
  • A Still Resonant Tale of Power and Violation
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Shakespeare's Lucrece and the Garnier-Pembroke Connection
    • A Mirror for Complaints: Shakespeare's Lucrece and Generic Tradition
    • Palisading the Elizabethan Body Politic
    • ‘Lucrece the Chaste’: The Construction of Rape in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece
    • ‘That Map which Deep Impression Bears’: The Politics of Conquest in Shakespeare's Lucrece
  • Further Reading
• Subjectivity, Exemplarity, and the Establishing of Characterization in Lucrece
• Lucrece's Gaze
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  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
• The Rape of Lucrece (Vol. 33)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • 'A Theme for Disputation': Shakespeare's Lucrece
  • Contemporary Reception
    • The Ironic Reading of The Rape of Lucrece and the Problem of External Evidence
  • Language And Imagery
    • Taking Tropes Seriously: Language and Violence in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece
    • Speech, Silence, and History in The Rape of Lucrece
  • Narrative Technique
    • Shakespearean Narrative: The Rape of Lucrece Reconsidered
    • Hyperbolic Desire: Shakespeare's Lucrece
  • Themes
    • The Politics of Lucrece
    • Chastity and Unreason in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece
    • Lucrece: The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity
  • Further Reading
• The Rape of Lucrece (Vol. 43)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Lucrece! What Hath Your Conceited Painter Wrought?
    • Lucrece's Re-Creation
    • Pleasing the Wiser Sort: Ethics and Genre in Lucrece and Hamlet
  • Rhetoric
    • 'The Blazon of Sweet Beauty's Best': Shakespeare's Lucrece
    • Shakespeare's Will: The Temporality of Rape
  • Structure
    • 'These Contraries Such Unity Do Hold': Structure in The Rape of Lucrece
  • The Violence Of Rape
    • Iconography and Rhetoric in Shakespeare's Lucrece
    • Shakespeare's Figure of Lucrece: Writing Rape
  • Further Reading