Search Results - "Lucrèce"

The rape of Lucrece by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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The semiotics of rape in Renaissance English literature by Ritscher, Lee A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The influence of misogyny on pre- and early modern rape laws -- The rape of Philomela : silence and speech -- The rape of Lucrece and the destruction of the feminine ideal -- The appetite for violence against women : the case of Lavinia's rape in Titus Andronicus.…”
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The third citizen Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons / by Arnold, Oliver, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"An epitome of the whole realme" : absorption and representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons -- Cade's mouth : swallowing Parliament in the first tetralogy -- "Their tribune and their trust" : political representation, property, and rape in Titus Andronicus and The rape of Lucrece -- "Caesar is turn'd to hear" : theater, popular dictatorship, and the conspiracy of republicanism in Julius Caesar -- "Worshipful mutineers" : from Demos to electorate in Coriolanus.…”
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Telling, turning moments in the classical political world by Blits, Jan H.

Table of Contents: “…Athens and Rome : Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus -- Redeeming lost honor : Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece -- The end of the noble -- No middle way, no second way : Rome and the Caudine Forks -- The politics of authority and rhetoric in republican Rome -- Political murder in Rome -- Power without office, office without power : Augustus's Principate -- Afterword: Greece versus Rome -- Appendix: Greece and Rome timeline.…”
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