"Untimely Breathings in The Rape of Lucrece"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbl2540/
Author:
	Tsentourou, Naya.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association) 18, no. 4 (2022): 385–407.
DOI:
	10.1080/17450918.2021.1957995
Annotation:
	Focuses on significance of breath and “pneumatic vocabulary” in Lucrece. Argues at key moments in poem, characters present breath events such sighs and disrupted and lost speech, while moment of Lucrece’s rape is allegorized with asphyxiation. Considers dynamics of gender, space, rhetoric and physiology in relation to breath in poem. English summary, online.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Rape of Lucrece
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2540