Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 92 IS - no. 4 T2 - Philological Quarterly SP - 449-69 ID - bbbc2221 T1 - "Orpheus, Unseen: Lucrece's Cancellation Fantasy" AU - Clody, Michael C PY - 2013 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Argues that "Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece defers from complicity with Tarquin's brutality and the political response it incites by resisting destiny and contesting the medium of preservation." Identifies poem as "unique model of authorial agency, one unseen although emblematized in Orpheus." Examines how Lucrece's title, Dedication, Argument, and narrative poem illustrates "estranged power of cancellation." ER -