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Lucrece

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lucrece or Lucretia , in Roman legend, Roman matron, illustrious for her virtue. She was the victim of rape by Sextus, son of Tarquinius Superbus. Having enjoined her husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, and his friends to avenge her, she stabbed herself to death. The ensuing revolt drove the Tarquins from Rome (see Tarquin ). Bibliography: See Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece. Author not available, LUCRECE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Fulgens and Lucrece
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Fulgens and Lucrece, a late 15th-cent. interlude by Henry Medwall ( fl. 1486), regarded as the earliest known purely secular play in English. Read more
Lucrece, The Rape of
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Lucrece, The Rape of, see Rape of Lucrece, The . Read more

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