SOURCE: “Lucrece,” in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems, Longman, 2000, pp. 63-81.
In the following excerpt, Cousins argues that Tarquin and Lucrece can be seen as parodies of Petrarchan lovers and that Lucrece's husband, Collatine, is a braggart who unwittingly turns Tarquin's violent attention towards Lucrece.
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