'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

Author / Editor
Bott, Robin.

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

Published
Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 189-211.

Description
Death is preferred to rape in both PhyT and "Titus Andonicus" because both works take for granted the notion that rape results in pollution or disease. In this way, the works contribute to negative views of women and their bodies in Western tradition.

Contributor
Robertson, Elizabeth, ed.
Rose, Christine M., ed.

Alternative Title
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale.