JOURNAL ARTICLE

Defacing Troy: From Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece to Medieval Manuscripts.

  • Published In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 2024, v. 142, n. 3. P. 548 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ravenhall, Henry 3 of 3

Abstract

Shakespeare's 1594 The Rape of Lucrece recounts the eponymous character's defacement of an image of the Fall of Troy. When reread in light of a widespread medieval practice of defacing images, including those in manuscripts about Troy, Lucrece's act is not (solely) a metaphor or a literary device, but an indication of how visual matter could be touched in premodern Europe. Reciprocally, Shakespeare's poem provides a rare glimpse of the complex affective and psychological dynamics behind medieval defacements of Troy (or otherwise), for which very little documentary evidence survives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie. 2024/09, Vol. 142, Issue 3, p548
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:03405222
  • DOI:10.1515/ang-2024-0045
  • Accession Number:179508829
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