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Article: Subjectivity, exemplarity, and the establishing of characterization in 'Lucrece.'
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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As might be expected, much of the more recent commentary on Lucrece has focused on the interrelated matters of politics, gender, and subjectivity. The poem's representation of the Roman world and its politics, especially its sexual/gender politics, has been studied; how Lucrece emerges from the variously political discourses of later Elizabethan society, and its negotiations with them, have been considered; the poem's representations of subjectivity in relation to patriarchy and rape have been widely discussed.(1) In focusing on such matters, most commentary has inevitably centered on the characterization of Lucrece herself. But as a result, the mutually constitutive nature ...
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Article: Rape of Lucrece, The: Part I.
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... ... desire, Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host ... Collatine's fair love, Lucrece the chaste. Haply that ... the night before, in Tarquin's tent, Unlock'd ... white. This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen, Argued ... and of roses, Which Tarquin view'd in her fair ...
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