"Lucrece, Letters and the Moment of Lipsius"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbp152/
Author:
	Mohamed, Feisal G.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Survey 77 (2024): 104–15.
Annotation:
	Positions Lucrece's letter writing in context of "the vogue for raison d'état" and Justus Lipsius's tract on letter writing. Suggests that "Lucrece is a masterful letter writer not because of what she has written, but because of what she has not written," that is, her grief. English summary, 347.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Lipsius, Justus
Keywords:
	epistolary culture
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare's Sources and Influences on Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
WSB Update:
	Spring 2026
WSB Record Number:
	bbbp152