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Book Chapter
A word, sweet Lucrece
2016
Overview
Produced in a society that considered itself deeply Christian, William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece poses an intriguing dilemma for those moralists who would evoke the Roman wife Lucretia as an emblem of feminine chastity. This chapter considers the politics of the narrative in light of two concerns: the first is the tradition of reading Lucrece's suicide as a reflection of Christian ideologies on sexuality and on suicide, specifically as articulated in the writing of St. Augustine. Through a reading of Lucrece's actions and speech leading up to and resulting in her death, it argues that her behavior is consistent with the two competing early modern Christian discourses about the nature of private confession. The second concern that guides this reading is the place of race in Shakespeare's narrative poem. Race is intertwined with Shakespeare's use of the confessional mode to represent female subjectivity.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Subject
ISBN
9781118501269, 1118501268
