Premium Content Masculine Honor and the Fetish of Chastity in Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece"
By Juliette Tang - November 24, 2004
Lucrece's tragic downfall in Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece" can be largely blamed on male competition. Her hapless story begins with a contest to determine which man possesses the chastest wife, "among which Collatus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia" After Lucrece is proclaimed the most dutiful, Sextus Tarquinius, a Tarquin…
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