SOURCE: "'The Blazon of Sweet Beauty's Best': Shakespeare's Lucrece" in Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, edited by Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 95-115.
Below, Vickers examines the rhetoric of The Rape of Lucrece as depicting male political struggles enacted on the female body.
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