Some Women Love to Struggle : A Cultural and Critical Analysis of Dramatic Representations of Rape in the Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods

Taking a feminist-historicist approach, this thesis analyses representations of rape in the period 1575-1625, drawing on recent work by Chaytor, Baines, Catty, and Bashar. It explores questions of gender, national identity, and the nature of speech. It considers the impact of changes made to the law...

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Main Author: Croft, Lyndsay Marie
Published: Loughborough University 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504681