Prominent allusions to Philomel also occur in The Rape of Lucrece, and the story is also referred to in Cymbeline.

L. J. Brutus is a leading character in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece and in Nathaniel Lee's Restoration tragedy ( 1680 ), Lucius Junius Brutus ; Father of his Country.

' is Southampton's initials reversed, and that he is a likely candidate as he was the dedicatee of Shakespeare's poems Venus & Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

In England, Shakespeare briefly describes a group of erotic paintings in Cymbeline, but his most extended exercise is a 200-line description of the Greek army before Troy in The Rape of Lucrece.

Shakespeare's first two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to Southampton, who is one of the major candidates to be the " Fair Youth " in Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Venus and Adonis ( 1593 ) was dedicated to Southampton in terms expressing respect, but no special intimacy ; but in the dedication of The Rape of Lucrece ( 1594 ) the tone is very different.

In the printed text, the poem is preceded by two commendatory poems, the second of which, signed " Contraria Contrariis ; Vigilantius ; Dormitanus ," contains a reference to Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece, published four months previously:

This is the earliest known printed allusion to Shakespeare by name ( aside from the title pages of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece ).

The Rape of Lucrece ( 1594 ) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia.

The title given on the title page was simply Lucrece, though the running title throughout the volume, as well as the heading at the beginning of the text, is The Rape of Lucrece.

( The Arden edition of Shakespeare's Poems, ed F. T. Prince, London and New York, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1960 ), from which this information is taken, calls the poem Lucrece.

Lucrece is also closely related to the early Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus ( circa 1590 – 94 ).

In this revenge play, when the raped and mutilated Lavinia reveals the identity of her rapists, her uncle Marcus invokes the story of Lucrece to urge an oath to revenge the crime: " And swear with me — as, with the woeful fere / And father of that chaste dishonoured dame, / Lord Junius Brutus swore for Lucrece ' rape -- / That we will prosecute by good advice / Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths, / And see their blood, or die with this reproach " ( 4. 1. 89 – 94 ). The rapist Tarquin is also mentioned in Macbeth's soliloquy from Act 2 Scene 1 of Macbeth: " wither'd Murther.

Lucrece is described as if she were a work of art, objectified in as if she were a material possession.

Although Lucrece is raped, the poem offers an apology to absolve her of guilt ( lines 1240 – 46 ).

Fineman observes that the tragic events of the poem are set in motion precisely by Collatine ’ s hyperbolic praise of Lucrece ; it is his “ boast of Lucrece ' sov ’ reignty ” ( 29 ) that kindles Tarquin ’ s profane desire.

It is not the fact of Lucrece ’ s chastity, but rather the fact that her husband praises her with the “ name of ‘ chaste ’” that inspires Tarquin's crime: “ Haply, that name of ‘ chaste ’ unhapp ’ ly set / This bateless edge on his keen appetite ” ( 8 – 9 ).

In these same opening stanzas, The Rape of Lucrece also acknowledges how its own poetic rhetoric is part of this larger literary tradition which yokes praise and violence.

Karina has also appeared on stage, in Rivette's adaptation of La Religieuse, Pour Lucrece, Toi et Tes Nuages, Françoise Sagan's Il Fait Beau Jour et Nuit and Ingmar Bergman's Efter repetitionen.

Such were the Sonnets of William Shakespeare who also wrote the erotic poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

Field released a second quarto in 1594, then transferred his copyright to John Harrison (" the Elder "), the stationer who published the first edition of The Rape of Lucrece, also in 1594.

The audiobook also includes " The Rape of Lucrece.

Goodall also conducted at Glyndebourne, including another Britten premiere, this time of The Rape of Lucrece, which was also his first recording, with EMI.

The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

* The poem " The Rape of Lucrece " by William Shakespeare

* William Shakespeare-The Rape of Lucrece

The seven-line stanza began to go out of fashion during the Elizabethan era but it was still used by John Davys in Orchestra and by William Shakespeare in The Rape of Lucrece.

* The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare

Dedication ( publishing ) | Dedication page, The Rape of Lucrece, with dedication to Southampton by William Shakespeare.

The Earl of Southampton, patron of William Shakespeare, painted in 1594, aged 21, the year that Shakespeare dedicated The Rape of Lucrece to him.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

Additionally, in his 1598 copy of an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's works, Gabriel Harvey has written that Shakespeare's " Lucrece & his tragedie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke, have it in them, to please the wiser sort ".

Like Shakespeare's other raped women, Lucrece gains symbolic value: through her suicide, her body metamorphoses into a political symbol.

In a post-structuralist analysis of the poem, Joel Fineman argues that The Rape of Lucrece, like Shakespeare's sonnets, deconstructs the traditional poetics of praise.

In Newman's reading, the tradition of violent female revenge for rape represented by the myth of Philomel is repressed in Shakespeare's Lucrece.

Shakespeare's poem faintly alludes to Ovid's myth, but does not present Procne and Philomel's method of revenge as an authentic option for Lucrece.

Critic Mary Vermillion sees a connection between Maya's rape and Shakespeare's " The Rape of Lucrece ", which Maya memorizes and recites when she regains her speech.

: For Shakespeare's poem, see The Rape of Lucrece

* The Rape of Lucrece, Q — 1594 ( with later editions in octavo );

In 1594, Shakespeare dedicated Lucrece to Southampton as the " graver labour " promised in his dedication to Venus and Adonis.

The Rape of Lucrece was entered into the Stationers ' Register on 9 May 1594, and published later that year, in a quarto printed by Richard Field for the bookseller John Harrison (" the Elder "); Harrison sold the book from his shop at the sign of the White Greyhound in St. Paul's Churchyard.