'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.
'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.