CRITICISM

Belsey, Catherine. “Tarquin Dispossessed: Expropriation and Consent in The Rape of Lucrece.” Shakespeare Quarterly 52, no. 3 (2001): 315-335.

Suggests that the treatment of rape in The Rape of Lucrece reflects a cultural and political change wherein consent replaced possession as the basis of marriage.

Montgomery, Jr., Robert L. “Shakespeare's Gaudy: The Method of The Rape of Lucrece.” In Studies in Honor of DeWitt T. Starnes, edited by Thomas P. Harrison, Archibald A. Hill, Ernest C. Mossner, and James Sledd, pp. 25-36. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1967.

Examines Shakespeare's abundant use of formal, patterned rhetoric in The Rape of Lucrece.

Stodder, Joseph H. “The Rape of Lucrece Dramatized in Los Angeles.” Shakespeare Quarterly 43, no. 1 (spring 1992): 86-9.

Reviews the 1990-91 Shakespeare Society of America's Globe Playhouse production of The Rape of Lucrece, directed by Theresa Shiban and produced by R. Thad Taylor.

Williams, Carolyn D. “‘Silence, like a Lucrece knife’: Shakespeare and the Meanings of Rape.” The Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993): 93-110.

Analyzes the rapes of both Lucrece in The Rape of Lucrece and Lavinia in Titus Andronicus.