Dubrow, Heather. "Full of forged lies': The Rape of Lucrece." In Captive Victors: Shakespeare's Narrative Poems and Sonnets, pp. 80-168. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Discusses the primary rhetorical devices of The Rape of Lucrece and compares the poem with several Shakespearean dramas.

Newman, Jane 0. '"And Let Mild Women to Him Lose Their Mildness': Philomela, Female Violence, and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece" Shakespeare Quarterly 45, No. 3 (Fall 1994): 304-26.

Examines the ways in which Lucrece complexly invokes the narrative of Philomela.

Schmitz, Götz. 'The Matron of Rome: Lucrece in Medieval and Renaissance Poetry." In The Fall of Women in Early Narrative Verse, pp. 76-104. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Recounts the literary portrayals of Lucrece and contrasts Shakespeare's characterization with Chaucer's.

Ziegler. Georgianna. "My lady's chamber: Female Space, Female Chastity in Shakespeare." Textual Practice 4, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 73-90.

Considers the intimate link drawn by Shakespeare between male intrusions into a woman's identity and into the private space of her room.