SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: William Shakespeare

»William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Fineman, Joel. »Shakespeare's Will. The temporality of rape.« Representations No. 20 (1987): 25-76.

[Info] Little, Arthur L., Jr. Shakespeare jungle fever. National-imperial re-visions of race, rape, and sacrifice. Stanford 2000.

[Info] Stimpson, Catharine R. »Shakespeare and the soil of rape.« The woman's part. Feminist criticism of Shakespeare. Edited by Carolyn R.S. Lenz et al. Urbana 1980: 56-64.

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The Comedy of Errors (Comedy, 1592 or 1594)

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»The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. In the centuries following its premiere, the play's title has entered the popular English lexicon as an idiom for "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout".
Set in the Greek city of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession. « -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Dugan, Holly. »Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England.« Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England. Edited by James M. Bromley et al. Minneapolis 2013: 213-231.

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[Info] Dugan, Holly. »Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment in Early Modern England.« 42^nd Annual Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2007.

Coriolanus (Tragedy, written between 1605 and 1608)

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»Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the same years he wrote Antony and Cleopatra, making them his last two tragedies.
Coriolanus is the name given to a Roman general after his military feats against the Volscians at Corioli. Following his success he seeks to be consul, but his disdain for the plebeians and the mutual hostility of the tribunes lead to his banishment from Rome. In exile, he presents himself to the Volscians, then leads them against Rome. After he relents and agrees to a peace with Rome, he is killed by his previous Volscian allies.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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

Cymbeline (Tragedy, 1611)

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»Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (c. 10- 14 AD) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although it is listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy. Like Othello and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Bamford, Karen. »Imogen's Wounded Chastity.« Essays in Theatre 12 (1993): 51-61.

[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

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Henry V (History Play, written near 1599)

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»Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift and The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Coral, Jordi. »"Maiden Walls That War Hath Never Entered": Rape and Post-Chivalric Military Culture in Shakespeare's Henry V.« College Literature 44 (2017): 404-435.

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Henry VI, Part 2 (History Play, written 1591)

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»Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas Henry VI, Part 1 deals primarily with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, and Henry VI, Part 3 deals with the horrors of that conflict, 2 Henry VI focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the rise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the War, the First Battle of St Albans (1455).« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Arab, Ronda. »Sexual Violence as Class Conflict: Seizing Patriarchal Privilege in Early Modern English Drama.« Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama. Edited by Ronda Arab et al. Cham 2023: 249-264.

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Macbeth (Tragedy, performed in 1606)

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»Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Bailey, Amanda. »Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth.« Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture. Edited by Jennifer Feather et al. New York 2013: 191-212.

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Measure for Measure (Play, written in 1603 or 1604)

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»Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604, according to available records. It was published in the First Folio of 1623.
The play's plot features its protagonist, Duke Vincentio of Vienna, stepping out from public life to observe the affairs of the city under the governance of his deputy, Angelo. Angelo's harsh and ascetic public image is compared to his abhorrent personal conduct once in office, in which he exploits his power to procure a sexual favour from Isabella, whom he considers enigmatically beautiful. The tension in the play is eventually resolved through Duke Vincentio's intervention, which is considered an early use of the deus ex machina in English literature.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Aebischer, Pascale. »Silence, Rape and Politics in Measure for Measure: Close Readings in Theatre History.« Shakespeare Bulletin 26 (2008): 1-19.

[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

[Info] Brooks de Vita, Alexis. »Immeasurable reflections on a 'Masque'. Reading corecive rape and the ravishment of silence in Milton's 'Comus' and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'.« English language notes 37 (2000): 25-34.

[Info] Fernie, Ewan. »'To sin in loving virtue': Desire and possession in Measure for Measure.« Sillages critiques No. 15 (2013).

[Info] Scozzaro, Concetta. Cruel Intentions: Rape and Deliberation in the Time of Shakespeare. Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2020.

[Info] Thoret, Yves. »La violence sexuelle dans Mesure pour mesure.« Sillages critiques No. 15 (2013).

[Info] Williams, Nora J. Canonical Misogyny: Shakespeare and Dramaturgies of Sexual Violence. Edinburgh 2025.

[Info] Yoon, Ah. Power, Law, and Female Agency: Reading Rape in Measure for Measure. Master Thesis, Seoul National University, 2012.

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[Info] Aebischer, Pascale. »'Is it her fault, or mine?': Rape, Silence and Culpability in Measure for Measure.« Shakespeare, Renaissance, Performance. Belfast 2006.

[Info] Aebischer, Pascale. »Rape, Silence and Politics in Measure for Measure: Close readings in Theatre History.« International Shakespeare Conference. Stratford-upon-Avon 2008.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy, written in 1595 or 1596)

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»A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Hutson, Lorna. »The Shakespearean unscene: Sexual phantasies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.« Journal of the British Academy 4 (2016): 169-185.

[Info] Levine, Laura. »Rape, repetition, and the politics of closure in A Midsummer Night's Dream.« Feminist readings of early modern culture. Emerging subjects. Edited by Valerie Traub et al. Cambridge 1996: 210-228.

[Info] Willis, Charisse. Gendering Violence: Re-thinking Coercion and Consent in Early Modern English Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2019.

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Othello (Tragedy, written in 1603)

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»Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603. The story revolves around two characters, Othello and Iago.
Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against invasion by Ottoman Turks. He has recently married Desdemona, a beautiful and wealthy Venetian lady younger than himself, without the knowledge of and despite the later objection of her father. Iago is Othello's malevolent ensign, who maliciously stokes his master's jealousy until the usually stoic Moor kills his beloved wife in a fit of blind rage. Due to its enduring themes of passion, jealousy, and race, Othello is still topical and popular and is widely performed, with numerous adaptations.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[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.

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Play, 1609)

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»Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. It was published in 1609 as a quarto, was not included in Shakespeare's collections of works until the third folio, and the main inspiration for the play was Gower's Confessio Amantis.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. Basingstoke 2000.

[Info] McAdams, Alexander L. »Toward a Blue Gender Studies: The Sea, Diana, and Feminine Virtue in Pericles.« Représentations dans le monde anglophone (April 2020): 49-74.

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Rape of Lucrece (Poem, 1594)

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»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.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[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 Lucrece.« Shakespeare survey 44 (1991): 33-39.

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

[Info] Brockman, Sonya L. »Trauma and Abandoned Testimony in Titus Andronicus and Rape of Lucrece.« College 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 Lucrece.« Explicator 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 Lucrece.« Multicultural 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 Lucrece.« Studies in Philology 107 (2010): 336-359.

[Info] Kahn, Coppélia. »The Rape in Shakespeare's Lucrece.« Shakespeare 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 Lucrece.« A 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 Lucrece.« SEL 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 Lucrece.« Shakespeare 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 Lucrece.« Modern 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 Lucrece.« Historicizing 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] 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 Lucrece.« Critical 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" Lucrece.« SEL 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 Lucrece.« Compromise 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.

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

[Info] Sanchez, Melissa. »Consent Without Agency in The Rape of Lucrece.« 56^th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Venice 2010.

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

Romeo and Juliet (Tragedy, 1597)

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»Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Watson, Robert N., et al. »Wherefore art thou tereu? Juliet and the legacy of rape.« Renaissance quarterly 63 (2005): 127-156.

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The Taming of the Shrew (Comedy, written between 1590 and 1592)

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»The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction,[a] in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Kondo, Hiroyuki. »Jajauma Narashi ni okeru kekkon to gokan.« Sheikusupia. Seki wo koete. Tokyo 2002: 49-68.

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The Tempest (Play, written in 1610-1611)

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»The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spirit. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

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[Info] Mendoza, Kirsten N. Representations of Race, Rape, and Consent in Early Modern English Drama. Ph.D.Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2018.

[Info] Sanchez, Melissa E. »Seduction and service in The Tempest.« Studies in philology 105 (2008): 50-82.

[Info] Slights, Jessica. »Rape and the romanticization of Shakespeare's Miranda.« Studies in English literature 1500-1900 41 (2001): 357-379.

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Titus Andronicus (Tragedy, written between 1588 and 1593)

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»Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the 16th century.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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

[Info] Aebischer, Pascale. Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance. Cambridge 2004.

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

[Info] Ballestra-Puech, Sylvie. »Violence et mélancolie dans Titus Andronicus de Shakespeare, Viol de Botho Strauss et Anéantis de Sarah Kane.« Loxias No. 31 (2010).

[Info] Barker, Helen M. Writing about rape: Law, criticism, and drama, from Shakespeare's Titus to The Lawes Resolutions. Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015.

[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] Bott, Robin L. »«O, keep me from their worse than killing lust». Ideologies of rape and mutilation in Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 189-211.

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

[Info] Bretz, Andrew. Emergent Identity: Masculinity and the Representation of Rape on the Early Modern Stage, 1590-1620. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Guelph, 2012.

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

[Info] Carter, Sarah. Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature. Basingstoke 2011.

[Info] Detmar-Goebel, Emily. »The need for Lavinia's voice. Titus Andronicus and the telling of rape.« Shakespeare studies 29 (2001): 75-92.

[Info] Kurian, Anna. »Teaching Titus Andronicus in Contemporary India.« Radical Teacher No. 97 (2013): 74-75.

[Info] Macomber, Lynnette. Sexual Iconoclasm in Early Modern Drama. Honors Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 2013.

[Info] Mendoza, Kirsten N. Representations of Race, Rape, and Consent in Early Modern English Drama. Ph.D.Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2018.

[Info] Miola, Robert S. »The Dark Side: Seneca and Shakespeare.« Memoria di Shakespeare No. 10 (2023): 91-111.

[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] Ray, Sid. »"Rape, I fear, was root of thy annoy". The politics of consent in Titus Andronicus.« Shakespeare quarterly 49 (1998): 22-39.

[Info] Regehr, Kaitlyn, et al. »Let them Satisfy Thus Lust on Thee: Titus Andronicus as Window Into Societal Views of Rape and PTSD.« Traumatology 18 (2012): 27-34.

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

[Info] Sale, Carolyn J. Contested acts. Legal performances and literary authority in early modern England. Ann Arbor 2002.

[Info] Sale, Carolyn. »Representing Lavinia. The (in)significance of women's consent in legal discourses of rape and ravishment and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.« Women, violence, and English Renaissance literature. Essays honoring Paul Jorgensen. Edited by Linda Woodbridge et al. Tempe 2003: 1-27.

[Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible Acts: Performing Violence Against Women in Early Modern and Contemporary Drama in English. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004.

[Info] Solga, Kim. »Rape's metatheatrical return. Rehearsing sexual violence among the early moderns.« Theatre journal 58 (2006): 53- .

[Info] Solga, Kim. Invisible acts. Witnessing violence against women in early modern performance. Basingstoke 2009.

[Info] Stahl, Amy L. Blasting binaries and humanizing humans. Thomas Middleton's feminism. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2007.

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

[Info] Willbern, David. »Rape and revenge in 'Titus Andronicus'.« English literary Renaissance 8 (1978): 159-182.

[Info] Willbern, David. »Rape and revenge in 'Titus Andronicus'.« Shakespeare criticism. Excerpts from the criticism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations. Vol. 3. Edited by Laurie L. Harris. Detroit 1986.

[Info] Willbern, David. »Rape and revenge in 'Titus Andronicus'.« Titus Andronicus. Critical essays. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York 1995: 171-194.

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[Info] Bott, Robin L. »'The girl should not survive her shame': Chaucer's Physician's Questionable Corrective for Rape in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.« Feminist Criticism and Shakespeare Conference. Rhode Island 1993.

[Info] Bott, Robin L. »'The girl should not survive her shame': Chaucer's Physician's Questionable Corrective for Rape in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.« 26^th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Colorado Springs 1994.

[Info] Bott, Robin L. »"O, keep me from their worse than killing lust": Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer's Physician Tale and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.« 34^th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1999.

[Info] Carter, Sarah. »Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature.« MA in English Literature Seminars. Bristol 2012.

[Info] Dieterich, Elizabeth. »Maddening Pictures: Staging Sexual Violence and Trauma in Titus Andronicus.« Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Dublin 2022.

[Info] Panek, Jennifer. »Lavinia's Revenge: Rape, Shame, and Disgust in Titus Andronicus.« Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Toronto 2019.

[Info] Sanchez, Melissa. »Politic Bodies: Rape in Titus Andronicus.« 11^th Annual Conference for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Newport Beach 2003.

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

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Comedy, written between 1589 and 1593)

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»The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play,[a] and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and motifs with which he would later deal in more detail; for example, it is the first of his plays in which a heroine dresses as a boy. The play deals with the themes of friendship and infidelity, the conflict between friendship and love, and the foolish behaviour of people in love.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Bowden, Betsy. »Latin pedagogical plays and the rape scene in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.« English language notes 41 (2003): 18-32.

[Info] Carroll, William C. »'And love you 'gainst the nature of love'. Ovid, rape, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.« Shakespeare's Ovid. The Metamorphoses in the plays and poems. Edited by A.B. Taylor. Cambridge 2000: 49-65.

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Venus and Adonis (Narrative Poem, published in 1593)

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»Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication.
The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral, and at times erotic, comic and tragic. It contains discourses on the nature of love, and observations of nature.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Rothenberg, Alan B. »Oral rape fantasy and rejection of mother in the imagery of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.« Psychoanalytic quarterly 40 (1971): 447-468.

[Info] Willis, Charisse. Gendering Violence: Re-thinking Coercion and Consent in Early Modern English Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2019.

[Info] Wortis, Joseph. »Venus and Adonis: An Early Account of Sexual Harassment.« Biological Psychiatry 35 (1994): 293.

[Info] Wortis, Joseph. »Venus and Adonis: An Early Account of Sexual Harassment.« Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York 1997: 259-260.

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The Winter's Tale (Play, published in 1623)

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»The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays" because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comic and supply a happy ending.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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