Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Lisa S. Starks-Estes

Part I. Love’s Wound: Violence, Trauma, and Ovidian Transformation in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays

2. The Origin of Love: Ovidian Lovesickness and Trauma in Venus and Adonis

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3. Shakespeare’s Perverse Astraea, Martyr’d Philomel, and Lamenting Hecuba: Ovid, Sadomasochism, and Trauma in Titus Andronicus

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4. Dido and Aeneas ‘Metamorphis’d’: Ovid, Marlowe, and the Masochistic Scenario in Antony and Cleopatra

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Part II. Transforming Bodies: Trauma, Virtus, and the Limits of Neo-Stoicism in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays

5. ‘A wretched image bound’: Neo-Stoicism, Trauma, and the Dangers of the Bounded Self in The Rape of Lucrece

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6. Bleeding Martyrs: The Body of the Tyrant/Saint, the Limits of ‘Constancy’, and the Extremity of the Passions in Julius Caesar

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7. ‘One whole wound’: Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Coriolanus

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8. Coda
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Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics