SOURCE: "Pleasing the Wiser Sort: Ethics and Genre in Lucrece and Hamlet" in The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1994, pp. 99-119.
In the following essay, Roe discusses the internal conflicts that precede Lucrece 's suicide, and claims they are drawn from the paradoxical nature of the ideal of chastity and link her to the character of Hamlet.
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