The Rape of Lucrece Questions and Answers
The Rape of Lucrece
Which Shakespeare play contains the quote, "what win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of...
This quote is from The Rape of Lucrece, which is a narrative poem by Shakespeare, not a play. The quote is uttered by the character Tarquin, a soldier. Lucrece is the wife of Collatine, a friend of...
The Rape of Lucrece
What kind of power did Tarquin possess or lack in The Rape of Lucrece?
In “The Rape of Lucrece” the character Tarquin is the perpetrator of the rape that is named in the poem’s title. There is a definite imbalance of power between Tarquin and his victim, Lucrece. The...