The need for Lavinia's voice: Titus Andronicus and the telling of rape.(Critical Essay)

From: Shakespeare Studies | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Detmer-Goebel, Emily | Copyright information

IN ACT 2 OF SHAKESPEARE'S Titus Andronicus, Lavinia refuses to name rape; she refers to an impending sexual assault as that which "womanhood denies my tongue to tell" and as a "worse-than-killing lust" (2.3.174, 175). (1) Lavinia's chaste refusal to say the word "rape" reminds the audience that even to speak of rape brings a woman shame. As feminists have pointed out, an environment that makes it shameful to speak of rape disallows a critique of rape and the culture that sustains i...

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