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- Title
Rape, Massacre, the Lucrece Tradition, and Alarum for London.
- Authors
LUCAS, GEORGINA
- Abstract
This article explores the conflation of rhetorical and physical acts of rape and massacre in a range of early modern drama, culminating in a case study of the two phenomena in Alarum for London (1599). Rooting its analysis in the Lucrece myth, the essay demonstrates how prominent traditions of reading rape - as an attack on the soul, and as an attack on a city - provide a rubric through which Alarum can be understood. When enacted concomitantly, rape and massacre have the propensity to destroy body and soul, individual, and the wider society to which they belong.
- Subjects
LUCRECE (Play); RAPE; MASSACRES; DRAMA; HEYWOOD, Thomas, d. 1641
- Publication
Early Theatre, 2017, Vol 20, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
1206-9078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12745/et.20.2.3208