
Published:
28 September 2017
Online ISBN:
9780191787065
Print ISBN:
9780198717577
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Context and sources Context and sources
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Graphic content: reader discretion advised? Graphic content: reader discretion advised?
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Visualizing the legend Visualizing the legend
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Getting down to business Getting down to business
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Lucrece’s chambers Lucrece’s chambers
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‘Herself herself detest’ ‘Herself herself detest’
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Depicting the fall of Troy Depicting the fall of Troy
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Lucrece as Roman tragedy Lucrece as Roman tragedy
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Chapter
3 (page 43)p. 43The Rape of Lucrece
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Published:September 2017
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Post, Jonathan F. S., 'The Rape of Lucrece', Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford , 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198717577.003.0003, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
‘The Rape of Lucrece’ considers the range of sources—and their particular emphases—that Shakespeare may have drawn on when writing his poem, published in 1594: Livy’s Roman civic history; Ovid’s lures of the emotions; and Chaucer’s Lucrece as the exemplary, loyal wife. Shakespeare broadened, deepened, and updated the known outlines of the story, selecting and expanding what he needed to fit the stylistic and thematic needs of the poem and the expectations of its readers. The result is a profoundly thoughtful poem, exploring the psyches of both villain and victim in greater depth and concentration than even his experience in the theatre had yet allowed.
Keywords:
Antony and Cleopatra, Samuel Daniel, history, Julius Caesar, King Lear, George Puttenham, Rape of Lucrece, Romeo and Juliet, theatre, Titus Andronicus, Venus and Adonis
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Very Short Introductions
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