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Record Number:
1661
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Bott , Robin L.
Contributor(s):
Title:
O, Keep Me from Their Worse Than Killing Lust: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale" and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
Source:
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose. The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Pages 189 - 211.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Body in Literature
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Physician's Tale
Disease, Image of
Fathers in Literature
Literature- Verse
Patriarchy in Literature
Rape in Literature
Virginia (Literary Figure)
Women in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
Looking at the metaphor of rape as disease as it occurs in Chaucer and Shakespeare, Bott argues that such stories adversely shape societal beliefs about rape and the female body. [Reproduced by permission of Palgrave].
Related Resources:
Robin Bott, "O, Keep me from their worse than killing lust," compares the legend of Virginia as told by Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, exploring the broader social implications of both poets' use of the trope of the raped w
Author's Affiliation:
Adrian College
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2001.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0312236484