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	GradeSaver: Rape of Lucrece Essay: Masculine Honor and the Fetish of Chastity in Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece"
		After Tarquin rapes Lucrece, it is as if she has lost the entirety of her appeal; he has satiated his desire, committed the ultimate act of power, and has nothing left to prove.
		Lucrece relates to the figure of Hecuba in the tapestry depicting the fall of Troy, because "In her, the painter had anatomized / Time's ruin, beauty's wrack, and grim care's reign; / Her cheeks with chops and wrinkles were disguised, / Of what she was no semblance did remain" (1450-1453).
		Lucrece's commodity value in the masculine economy is determined by the male gaze, and despite her misgivings, she finds solace in knowing that her value will rise when the men see her dead body.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/lucrece/essay1.html (3279 words)

	Lucrece - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lucrece or Lucretia, in Roman legend, Roman matron, illustrious for her virtue.
		She was the victim of rape by Sextus, son of Tarquinius Superbus.
		Shakespeare's Hector and Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.(Essays)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lucrece.html (231 words)

	Speech Silence History in Rape of Lucrece
		Lucrece finds her desperate voice only to encounter its limitations in a poem deeply informed by Renaissance assumptions about silence and segregation as indices of female chastity; contradictions and oppositions between modes of speech and silence mark the boundaries of her crisis.
		The rape is a perverted performance of the consequences of Lucrece's ideals of self-sacrifice, as Tarquin escalates the abstraction inherent in Roman languages of female behavior by seeing her as more closely resembling a graven image than a living being.
		Lucrece, who has found her identity to this point in silence, chastity, and enclosure, finds herself vowing to speak the "woes" of one who is doubly voiceless--both because the Hecuba who inspires her is only a "painted" image of a real woman, and because the legendary queen was involuntarily metamorphosed into a howling animal.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/lcrchist.htm (7459 words)

	William Shakespeare: The Rape of Lucrece
		Lucrece in her agony delivers tirades on Night, on Time, on Opportunity, as if they were theses for a degree in some academy of wit.
		Still the effect on a reader in the right mood is not that of frigid cleverness; the faults are faults of youth, the poet's pleasurable excitement can be perceived; nay at times we feel the energetic fervour of his heart.
		The strength of "Lucrece" lies in its graphic and gorgeous descriptions, and in its sometimes microscopic psychological analysis.
	geocities.com /litpageplus/shakemoul_rape.html (573 words)

	The Rape of Lucrece Criticism (Vol. 59)
		The Rape of Lucrece—Shakespeare's narrative poem and companion piece to the lighter Venus and Adonis—tells the story of Lucrece, the chaste wife of Collatine, whose rape by the Roman prince, Tarquin, leads to suicide, revenge, and the founding of the Roman Republic.
		Lucrece and her interactions with the two other principal characters in the poem have received scrutiny from feminist critics.
		While several scholars have blamed Lucrece for her passivity and her decision that death is preferable to living with what she and her society regard as the stigma of rape, several recent critics have by contrast emphasized her strength and independence.
	www.enotes.com /shakespearean-criticism/rape-lucrece (737 words)

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		Provoked at first by envy of Collatine, Lucrece’s husband, ‘that meaner men should vaunt/ That golden hap which their superiors want’ (41-42), Tarquin is forced to reconcile the forms of masculine honor—physical prowess and familial continence—that sustain his sense of self with the fear and consequent rage he feels at his implied inferiority to Collatine.
		Lucrece, however, is engaged in the act of ‘spinning amongst her maids.’ As handbooks of the period explain, while productive of a certain domestic product, handwork in the case of noblewomen was aimed at prohibiting rather than generating female activity and the forms of existence associated with it.
		What Shakespeare represents in Lucrece’s post-rape discourse, students discover, is a struggle to imagine the self beyond the hierarchies of value that predicate the rape itself—powerful, powerless--as well the assumed options—to live in shame or die in sin—that follow from it.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~metzgmj/publications/ROL.htm (4572 words)

	Rape of Lucrece
		Used as evidence of the corruption of the reigning King of Rome (his son was the rapist), the incident led to the overthrow of the king and the establishment of the Roman republic.
		Lucrece believes him honorable and upright, a fine and noble gentleman like her husband; she is trusting to a fault.
		Lucrece begs him, by all that is right and good, to leave her alone.
	cummingsstudyguides.net /xRapeLucr.html (1501 words)

	William Shakespeare. The Rape Of Lucrece
		At that time Sextus Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece's beauty, yet smothering his passions for the present, departed with the rest back to the camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself, and was (according to his estate) royally entertained and lodged by Lucrece at Collatium.
		Perchance his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty Suggested this proud issue of a king; For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be: Perchance that envy of so rich a thing, Braving compare, disdainfully did sting His high-pitch'd thoughts, that meaner men should vaunt That golden hap which their superiors want.
		This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen, Argued by beauty's red, and virtue's white: Of either's colour was the other queen, Proving from world's minority their right: Yet their ambition makes them still to fight; The sovereignty of either being so great, That oft they interchange each other's seat.
	lib.ru /SHAKESPEARE/ENGL/rape_en.txt (8890 words)

	The Rape of Lucretia Show Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lucrece's pleas, however, seem a tad too eloquent for a woman "in extremis" and we do not fully engage with her emotionally because of it.
		Despite the clearer dramatic action of the play, Lucrece herself is iconic-she and Rome are one-the complications of a flesh-and-blood woman are minimized.
		Even her recounting of the rape itself threads Tarquin's persuasions into the depths of her agony.
	www.portlandopera.org /2005/lucretia/about.shtml (1003 words)

	The Mirror Cracked
		Lucrece's beauty is blazed or "boast[ed]" (1.36) in a homosocial context not prior to her matrimonial confinement and her construction as "that name of chaste" (1.8)- the very embodiment of the gynecologized signifier of a phallus-affirming illustrative collatio- but after them.
		Because Collatine exhibits Lucrece as a desired object in a situation devoid of women (and therefore devoid of the subjectivity needed to define what is masculine), he not only reveals his own desire to consummate his marriage, but also the desire to reinstate femininity as a bolster for the masculine subject.
		Lucrece, the mirror in the complaint and the representation of femininity, challenges the idea of woman-as-narcissistic mirror/metaphor for masculinity by withdrawing herself from the function of reflection.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/2003/IPSAarticle.html (3172 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: The theme of rape in elizabethan and jacobean literary texts - Examensarbeit. Seminararbeiten, ...
		The famous playwright and poet William Shakespeare took the rape of Philomele, a topic which he used for both Titus Andronicus and Lucrece, from the Metamorphosis and the myth of the rape of Lucrece from the Fasti for his poem of the same name.
		Lucrece summoned her husband and father from the siege, told them of the rape and stabbed herself to death.
		Heywood’s play The Rape of Lucrece was very popular and well received in its day, although the figure of King Tarquin bears similarities to King James, that the 1616 version of Shakespeare’s poem saw a title-change, as if to secure part of Heywood’s fame for the poem through a similarity of names.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/vorschau/70037.html (1923 words)

	Shakespeare the Non-dramatic Poet
		The 'graver labour' promised in the dedication pleased 'the wiser sort'; like Daniel's earlier Complaint of Rosamond, The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a historical narrative 'tragedie' whose ancestry can be traced to the Myrroure for Magistrates (1559).
		Lucrece in her turn pours out a flood of words which the rapist hears patiently.
		Narration is mercifully resumed when Lucrece calls her maid and the 'silly groom' whose blushes declare him an honest country servant, offering again a glimpse of real life in England.
	www.fathom.com /course/28701905/session4.html (1157 words)

	Rape of Lucrece
		Used as evidence of the corruption of the reigning King of Rome (his son was the rapist), the incident led to the overthrow of the king and the establishment of the Roman republic.
		Lucrece believes him honorable and upright, a fine and noble gentleman like her husband; she is trusting to a fault.
		Lucrece begs him, by all that is right and good, to leave her alone.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /xRapeLucr.html (1501 words)

	The Rape of Lucrece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia.
		Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome.
		In 509 BCE, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome, raped Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, one of the king's aristocratic retainers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rape_of_Lucrece (370 words)

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		Quite aside from the disastrous personal implications, Lucrece's theorising on the nature of her violation illustrates the terrible nature of a society that demands from its women not just perfect chastity but the appearance of perfect chastity, even when that very quality has been forcibly taken by powerful men.
		Lucrece's eventual suicide is a damning final verdict on the patriarchal authorities surrounding her.
		Consider this: Lucrece's body is often categorised in terms that suggest that she is some form of property: her breasts are 'a pair of maiden worlds unconquered' (4068), for instance.
	members.lycos.co.uk /nathondyche/week9.html (432 words)

	The Rape of Lucrece
		This poem, published first in 1594 as Lucrece (The Rape of Lucrece becomes standard later), no doubt the "graver labor" promised in the dedication of Venus and Adonis the previous year, is accompanied by an affectionate dedication to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton.
		Lucrece then examines a "skillful painting, made for Priam's Troy" (1367), the long description of which critics generally dismiss as a digression and a flaw, filler to the tune of one ninth of the entire length of the poem, so that time may pass.
		Lucrece is wrathful about Helen and Paris, but Sinon comes off as truly evil, and neither red nor white: "That blushing red no guilty instance gave, / Nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have" (1511-1512).
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/lucrece.html (1055 words)

	The Rape of Lucrece Criticism
		The critic argues that Lucrece uses her complaint to redefine herself and to come to terms with her ethical dilemma, noting that Shakespeare used this same device in Hamlet.
		In the following essay, Williams analyzes the rapes of both Lucrece in The Rape of Lucrece and Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, and concludes that although little resolution may be reached regarding Shakespeare's treatment of rape, some understanding of the confusion of Shakespeare and his contemporaries concerning the issue of rape may be achieved.
		Through both Lucrece and Tarquin, Washington maintains, we are encouraged to see Lucrece as a personification of an outdated mode of literary expression, that of Petrarchan perfection, and to view Tarquin as the means by which Lucrece's literary hegemony is necessarily purged.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/The_Rape_of_Lucrece (1286 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Theatre : The Rape of Lucrece
		Although Lucrece wasn’t written as a play, its author was a playwright, and he gives the actor a lot to work with in terms of first-person speeches.
		One night, for whatever reason, Collatine begins to speak about how happy he is with Lucrece, how beautiful and chaste she is. Tarquin, hearing this, decides that he must have her.
		Although he’s writing in a time when women are considered as property, and rape is usually portrayed as a crime not against the woman herself but against her husband or father, Shakespeare is too sensitive a writer not to think about Lucrece.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/012705/theatre.html (598 words)

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		THE RAPE OF LUCRECE FROM the besieged Ardea all in post, Borne by the trustless wings of false desire, Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host, And to Collatium bears the lightless fire Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire And girdle with embracing flames the waist Of Collatine's fair love, Lucrece the chaste.
		Perchance his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty Suggested this proud issue of a king; For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be: Perchance that envy of so rich a thing, Braving compare, disdainfully did sting His high-pitch'd thoughts, that meaner men should vaunt That golden hap which their superiors want.
		This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen, Argued by beauty's red and virtue's white Of either's colour was the other queen, Proving from world's minority their right: Yet their ambition makes them still to fight; The sovereignty of either being so great, That oft they interchange each other's seat.
	www.it.usyd.edu.au /~matty/Shakespeare/texts/poetry/rapeoflucrece (8726 words)

	purevolume™ \| The Rape Of Lucrece
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	www.purevolume.com /therapeoflucrece (191 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lucrece
		Lucrece Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
		His Fulgens and Lucrece (1497), whose heroine must choose between two suitors, is the earliest known secular English play.
		According to the historian Livy, when the rule of the Bacchiadae in Corinth was overthrown (c.657 BC) by the tyrant Cypselus, Demaratus, a Corinthian noble, migrated to Tarquinii, Etruria, where he married into one of the
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Lucrece (452 words)

	The Rape of Lucrece Summary
		In the following essay, Breitenberg examines the ways in which honor, publication, and desire serve as the bases for Shakespeare's depiction and criticism of masculinity in The Rape of Lucrece, and emphasizes that this exploration is undertaken within the context of early modern rhetoric concerning the nature of masculinity.
		In the poem The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare, the emphasis is more on the results of the rape than on the rape itself.
		The poem is analyzed as a study on the effects of rape.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Rape_of_Lucrece (320 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - Shakespeare's Poetry
		If Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece represent Shakespeare's quest for immortality, his sonnets of the early 1590s represent the passion and introspection behind it.
		In fact, it's believed that Lucrece is the "graver labour" to which Shakespeare refers in the dedication of Venus and Adonis.
		While Shakespeare sticks fairly closely to the narrative of Ovid, in The Rape of Lucrece, he expands significantly on the action through the characterization of both Tarquin and Lucrece.
	www.bardweb.net /poetry.html (1223 words)

	"To find a face where all distress is stell'd": Enargeia, Ekphrasis, and mouning the The Rape Of Lucrece and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		But in this poem the process of ideal/idol-ization has as its telos the rape of Lucrece, and I shall read the pre-rape narrative as in part a meditation on the destructive power of emotionally charged visual description-enargeia-within a lyric context.
		This meditation is complicated by the fact that Lucrece is an epyllion, a hybrid genre characterized both by its deployment of vivid description and by its treatment of epic subjects.
		The gendering of the absorptive image as feminine, obviously so crucial to the critique of Petrarchanism in the rape narrative, is also of central importance in the poem's deconstruction of the epic image.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_200204/ai_n9025423 (569 words)

	Lucretia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Among the avengers were her husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, who was a nephew of Tarquinius Priscus and one of the first consuls of Rome, along with Brutus.
		The story of Lucretia has been told in The Rape of Lucrece, a 1594 poem by William Shakespeare (who also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus); The Rape of Lucrece, a 1607 play by Thomas Heywood; Le Viol de Lucrèce, a play by André Obey; and The Rape of Lucretia, a 1941 opera by Benjamin Britten.
		Episode 6, "Queen of Heaven", of the BBC miniseries I, Claudius opens with a scene where a Roman noblewoman, Lollia (played by Isabel Dean), recounts to her friends how she participated in the perverse orgies orchestrated by the emperor Tiberius so that he would not try to include her daughter in them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucretia (463 words)

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