(Re)Calling Philomela: Cultural Perceptions, Community Incorporation, and Collective Memory in Shakespeare’s Lucrece and Trussell’s HelenWilliam Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece (1594) and John Trussell’s Raptus I. Helenae. The First Rape of Faire Hellen (1595) intersect through not only their...
There is nothing natural or permanent about the body and its sexuality. The "sexual" is constructed through a host of discourses including the legal, penal, medical, psychological and linguistic practices. Similarly, abuse has its own evolving history. I argue that the script of rape involves a...