Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: William Shakespeare: 16th Century:

Representations: Literary Texts:
RAPE OF LUCRECE

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour". Accordingly, The Rape of Lucrece has a serious tone throughout.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Acnient History: Etruscan History, Roman History | Modern History: 16th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: Italian History, English History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Mythological Victims: Lucretia | Types: General: Rape


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Adams, Michael. »Specular Rape: Reflections on Early Modern Reflections of the Present Day.« Centennial Review 41 (1997): 217-250.

[Info] Arnold, Oliver. The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons. Baltimore 2007.

[Info] Baines, Barbara J. »;Effacing Rape in Early Modern Representation.« ELH 65 (1998): 69-98.

[Info] Balikov, Molly E.M. Telling a Picture of Rape: The Visual and the Verbal in Shakespeare's "Lucrece". M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland, 2005.

[Info] Bernard, David A. Rape and the Feminine Response in Early Modern England and Several Shakespearean Works. Senior English Honors Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2011.

[Info] Berry, Philippa. »Women, language and history in The Rape of LucreceShakespeare survey 44 (1991): 33-39.

[Info] Bowers, A. Robin. »Emblem and Rape in Shakespeare's Lucrece and Titus AndronicusStudies in Iconography 10 (1984-86): 79-96.

[Info] Brockman, Sonya L. »Trauma and Abandoned Testimony in Titus Andronicus and Rape of LucreceCollege Literature 44 (2017): 344-378.

[Info] Burns, Victoria. »"What he did note but strongly he desir'd?": Reading Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece as a Pornographic Possession.« Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (2019): 79-87.

[Info] Daalder, Joost. »Shakespeare's The Rape of LucreceExplicator 55 (1997): 195-197.

[Info] Daileader, Celia R. »“Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 67-89.

[Info] Darvill Mills, Janis J. Early Modern Legal Poetics and Morality 1560-1625. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011.

[Info] Desmet, Christy. »Revenge, Rhetoric, and Recognition in The Rape of LucreceMulticultural Shakespeare 12 (2015): 27-40.

[Info] Greenstadt, Amy. Rape and the Rise of the Author: Gendering Intention in Early Modern England. Burlington 2009.

[Info] Hombu, Izumi. »The Door on the Latch: Ambiguity of the Rape in Shakespeare's Lucrece.« Zephyr 35 (2023): 31-45.

[Info] Huth, Kimberly. »“This Forcèd League”: The Compassionate Body in The Rape of Lucrece.« Renaissance and Reformation 47 (2024): 137-167.

[Info] Jacobsen, Miriam. »The Elizabethan Cipher in Shakespeare's LucreceStudies in Philology 107 (2010): 336-359.

[Info] Kahn, Coppélia. »The Rape in Shakespeare's LucreceShakespeare Studies 9 (1976): 45-72.

[Info] Kahn, Coppélia. »Lucrece: The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity.« Rape and Representation. Edited by Lynn A. Higgins et al. New York 1991: 141-159.

[Info] Kahn, Coppélia. »Publishing Shame: The Rape of LucreceA Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Vol. IV. Edited by Richard Dutton et al. Malden 2003: 259-274.

[Info] Kietzman, Mary J. »"What is Hecuba to him or (s)he to Hecuba?" Lucrece's complaint and Shakespearean poetic agency.« Modern philology 97 (1999): 21-45.

[Info] Kunat, John. »Rape and Republicanism in Shakespeare's LucreceSEL 55 (2015): 1-20.

[Info] Matres García, Ane. »La reescritura feminista de la violación de Lucrecia: La subversión de Shakespeare por Angélica Liddell.« Impossibilia 27 (2024): 102-113.

[Info] Maus, Katherine E. »Taking tropes seriously. Language and violence in Shakespeare's Rape of LucreceShakespeare quarterly 37 (1986): 66-82.

[Info] Pallotti, Donatella. »Maps of Woe Narratives of Rape in Early Modern England.« Journal of Early Modern Studies 2 (2013): 211-239.

[Info] Polite, Brandon. Tortured Calculations: Body Economies in Shakespeare's Cultures of Honor.« Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 4 (2011): 68-79.

[Info] Quay, Sara E. »'Lucrece the chaste': The Construction of Rape in Shakespeare's The Rape of LucreceModern Language Studies 25 (1995): 3-17.

[Info] Quinn, Kelly A. »Ecphrasis and Reading Practices in Elizabethan Narrative Verse.« SEL 44 (2004): 19-35.

[Info] Reedy, Catherine. »Infected Fancies and Penetrative Poetics in The Rape of LucreceHistoricizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature. Edited by Mark Kaethler et al. Cham 2024: 109-128.

[Info] Ritscher, Lee A. The semiotics of rape in Renaissance English literature. Ann Arbor 2005.

[Info] Robinson, Peter. Sexual Violence and Literary Art. London 2026.

[Info] Scudder, Erin. Reading Rape in Livy's History of Rome, Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, and J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country. Master Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2010.

[Info] Singh, Rupesh. »Shakespeare's Idea of Love and Chastity in The Rape of Lucrece.« Labyrinth 10 (2019): 173-179.

[Info] Smith, Peter J. »Rome's disgrace. The politics of rape in Shakespeare's LucreceCritical survey 17 (2005): 15-26.

[Info] Sokol, B.J., et al. Shakespeare, law, and marriage. Cambridge 2003.

[Info] Swärdh, Anna. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature: A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton. Uppsala 2003.

[Info] Vasileiou, Margaret R. »Violence, Visual Metaphor, and the "True" LucreceSEL 51 (2011): 47-63.

[Info] Widdicombe, Karen E. "The worth of my untutored lines". A study of Lucrece and the erotic narrative verse of the 1590's. Ottawa 1987.

[Info] Willbern, David. »Rape, writing, hyperbole. Shakespeare's LucreceCompromise formations. Current directions in psychoanalytic criticism. Edited by Vera J. Camden. Kent 1989: 182-198.

[Info] Williams, Carolyn D. »'Silence, like a Lucrece knife'. Shakespeare and the meanings of rape.« Yearbook of English studies 23 (1993): 93-110.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Lewin, Jennifer. »"By deep surmise of others' detriment": Character and Mimesis in The Rape of LucreceAnnual Meeting of Renaissance Society of America. Chicago 2008.

[Info] Lockey, Brian C. »From Lucrece to Cymbeline: The Transnational Foundations of Shakespeare's Porous Commonwealth.« 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Philadelphia 2020.

[Info] Sanchez, Melissa. »Consent Without Agency in The Rape of Lucrece56th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Venice 2010.

[Info] Wells, Marion. »Philomela's Marks: Ekphrasis, Grief, and Gender in Shakespeare's Poetry.« 57th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Montreal 2011.