Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature : Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Elizabeth, and Christine M. Rose, eds.
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature : Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II
- Published
- New York and Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.
- Physical Description
- x, 453 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Eleven essays about literary depictions of rape in Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Latin comedies, Ovidian narratives, and the Philomel story. Includes an introduction by the editors, an afterword by Christopher Cannon, and a revised reprint of Cannon's "Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty's Certainties" (SAC 22 [2000], 67-92). For four new essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Rose, Christine M., ed.
Cannon, Christopher.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.