Jane D. Chaplin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199558681
- eISBN:
- 9780191720888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558681.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter explores why Livy chose to shape Scipio Africanus' encounter with the Spanish maiden in Book 26 as a positive variant on the Lucretia narrative. Where the rape of Lucretia triggers the ...
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This chapter explores why Livy chose to shape Scipio Africanus' encounter with the Spanish maiden in Book 26 as a positive variant on the Lucretia narrative. Where the rape of Lucretia triggers the overthrow of the monarchy, Scipio's restrained behaviour towards the Spanish maiden leads to local alliances and military support. Comparison with Polybius illuminates Livy's emphasis on the connection between abstinence and diplomatic success. Further, the revisiting and amplification of the episode when Scipio rebukes Masinissa for trying to protect Sophoniba show the centrality of this theme to Livy's conception of Scipio. The chapter then uses the trials of the Scipios to consider the similarities and differences between Scipio and 1st-century warlords, and argues that Scipio's failure to capitalize on his extra-constitutional status distinguishes him from Marius, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar, and explains his value for a reversal of Lucretia's story.Less
This chapter explores why Livy chose to shape Scipio Africanus' encounter with the Spanish maiden in Book 26 as a positive variant on the Lucretia narrative. Where the rape of Lucretia triggers the overthrow of the monarchy, Scipio's restrained behaviour towards the Spanish maiden leads to local alliances and military support. Comparison with Polybius illuminates Livy's emphasis on the connection between abstinence and diplomatic success. Further, the revisiting and amplification of the episode when Scipio rebukes Masinissa for trying to protect Sophoniba show the centrality of this theme to Livy's conception of Scipio. The chapter then uses the trials of the Scipios to consider the similarities and differences between Scipio and 1st-century warlords, and argues that Scipio's failure to capitalize on his extra-constitutional status distinguishes him from Marius, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar, and explains his value for a reversal of Lucretia's story.
Peter Mark Keegan
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198154754
- eISBN:
- 9780191715457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198154754.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter tests the degree to which the Fasti is immersed in and co-opted by the prevailing masculinist culture of its time, and compares interpretations of modern critics examining Ovid’s ...
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This chapter tests the degree to which the Fasti is immersed in and co-opted by the prevailing masculinist culture of its time, and compares interpretations of modern critics examining Ovid’s (re)presentations of women. It finds some colluding with the poet’s conservative phallocentric imperatives on ritual(ized) female activity. It contends that the ways by which Ovid engages in negating, inhibiting, silencing, or slaying women are reflected in modern interpretative practices, and notes the operation of an intertextuality between the criticized and the critic. It offers a reading of Ovid’s Regifugium and the rape of Lucretia as a suggested methodology for an interpretation sensitive to sexual(ized) nuances in the Fasti and a way of delimiting and abnegating the perpetuation of the Philomela/Tacita syndrome in contemporary literary-critical and histori(ographi)cal practices.Less
This chapter tests the degree to which the Fasti is immersed in and co-opted by the prevailing masculinist culture of its time, and compares interpretations of modern critics examining Ovid’s (re)presentations of women. It finds some colluding with the poet’s conservative phallocentric imperatives on ritual(ized) female activity. It contends that the ways by which Ovid engages in negating, inhibiting, silencing, or slaying women are reflected in modern interpretative practices, and notes the operation of an intertextuality between the criticized and the critic. It offers a reading of Ovid’s Regifugium and the rape of Lucretia as a suggested methodology for an interpretation sensitive to sexual(ized) nuances in the Fasti and a way of delimiting and abnegating the perpetuation of the Philomela/Tacita syndrome in contemporary literary-critical and histori(ographi)cal practices.
Lisa Pace Vetter
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479853342
- eISBN:
- 9781479867752
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479853342.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Frances Wright (1795–1852), Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), Angelina Grimké (1805–1879), Sarah Grimké (1792–1873), Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), and Sojourner Truth ...
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Frances Wright (1795–1852), Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), Angelina Grimké (1805–1879), Sarah Grimké (1792–1873), Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), and Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797–1883). These seven women were on the front lines fighting for two of the most important causes in American history: abolitionism and expanding women’s rights. The Jacksonian era in which they lived fundamentally challenged the American project. The potential enfranchisement of marginalized populations—especially women and enslaved persons—led to confrontations over the foundational principles of America. These women are well known to historians, scholars of literature, and others. In comparison, from the perspective of political theory, our understanding of the early women’s rights movement and abolitionism, pivotal developments in American political thought, is still relatively limited. In spite of its openness to nontraditional theorists—the Founders and Abraham Lincoln, for example—American political thought does not extend the same recognition to many abolitionists and early women’s rights advocates. This book examines the works of these seven influential women to show that they offer significant theoretical insights into the founding principles of equality, freedom, citizenship, representation, deliberation, religious toleration, and constitutional reform. Their efforts served as a “civic founding” that laid the groundwork not only for women’s suffrage and the abolition of slavery but also for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today.Less
Frances Wright (1795–1852), Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), Angelina Grimké (1805–1879), Sarah Grimké (1792–1873), Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), and Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797–1883). These seven women were on the front lines fighting for two of the most important causes in American history: abolitionism and expanding women’s rights. The Jacksonian era in which they lived fundamentally challenged the American project. The potential enfranchisement of marginalized populations—especially women and enslaved persons—led to confrontations over the foundational principles of America. These women are well known to historians, scholars of literature, and others. In comparison, from the perspective of political theory, our understanding of the early women’s rights movement and abolitionism, pivotal developments in American political thought, is still relatively limited. In spite of its openness to nontraditional theorists—the Founders and Abraham Lincoln, for example—American political thought does not extend the same recognition to many abolitionists and early women’s rights advocates. This book examines the works of these seven influential women to show that they offer significant theoretical insights into the founding principles of equality, freedom, citizenship, representation, deliberation, religious toleration, and constitutional reform. Their efforts served as a “civic founding” that laid the groundwork not only for women’s suffrage and the abolition of slavery but also for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today.
Helen Small
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184911
- eISBN:
- 9780191674396
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184911.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Bulwer–Lytton's Lucretia is the grim story of a woman's downward spiral from immorality into insanity. Lucretia Clavering, a clever but corrupt English girl, is disinherited by her uncle when he is ...
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Bulwer–Lytton's Lucretia is the grim story of a woman's downward spiral from immorality into insanity. Lucretia Clavering, a clever but corrupt English girl, is disinherited by her uncle when he is alerted to her unfilial behaviour. At the same time she is rejected by the man she loves. The dual reflection scars her, emotionally and morally, for life. In Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the instability of the madwoman's meaning for mid-nineteenth-century English fiction is more firmly held in view and turned to effect. For Charlotte Brontë, identity consists in mastering the past, acknowledging it as part of one's history, but a history whose meaning is under control. Though it will always leave its scars, the wounds eventually heal. Brontë's rewriting of Romantic insanity has all the confidence and yet all the anxiety of the mid-Victorian period.Less
Bulwer–Lytton's Lucretia is the grim story of a woman's downward spiral from immorality into insanity. Lucretia Clavering, a clever but corrupt English girl, is disinherited by her uncle when he is alerted to her unfilial behaviour. At the same time she is rejected by the man she loves. The dual reflection scars her, emotionally and morally, for life. In Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the instability of the madwoman's meaning for mid-nineteenth-century English fiction is more firmly held in view and turned to effect. For Charlotte Brontë, identity consists in mastering the past, acknowledging it as part of one's history, but a history whose meaning is under control. Though it will always leave its scars, the wounds eventually heal. Brontë's rewriting of Romantic insanity has all the confidence and yet all the anxiety of the mid-Victorian period.
Nigel Mortimer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199275014
- eISBN:
- 9780191705939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275014.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter re-examines the notion of Lydgate as a ‘prince-pleaser’ laureate of the Lancastrian dynasty, exploring the involvement of his patron, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and brother of Henry V, ...
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This chapter re-examines the notion of Lydgate as a ‘prince-pleaser’ laureate of the Lancastrian dynasty, exploring the involvement of his patron, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and brother of Henry V, in the composition of the Fall. Humphrey's personal political ambitions and his conflicts with the conciliar rule of magnates during the minority of Henry VI are discussed. Consideration is given to Lydgate's substantial additions to the poem, in particular his inclusion of moralizing ‘envoy’ passages after narratives (which sharpen the advisory value of the poem) and an account of the rape of Lucretia (which draws on a prose version by the influential Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati). Lydgate's only prose work, Serpent of Division, traces the Roman Civil Wars, the collapse of the late Roman Republic, and the final years of the life of Julius Caesar; Lydgate manipulates both this text and Roman narratives in the Fall in order to voice political advice.Less
This chapter re-examines the notion of Lydgate as a ‘prince-pleaser’ laureate of the Lancastrian dynasty, exploring the involvement of his patron, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and brother of Henry V, in the composition of the Fall. Humphrey's personal political ambitions and his conflicts with the conciliar rule of magnates during the minority of Henry VI are discussed. Consideration is given to Lydgate's substantial additions to the poem, in particular his inclusion of moralizing ‘envoy’ passages after narratives (which sharpen the advisory value of the poem) and an account of the rape of Lucretia (which draws on a prose version by the influential Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati). Lydgate's only prose work, Serpent of Division, traces the Roman Civil Wars, the collapse of the late Roman Republic, and the final years of the life of Julius Caesar; Lydgate manipulates both this text and Roman narratives in the Fall in order to voice political advice.
Philip Brett
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520246096
- eISBN:
- 9780520939127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520246096.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
One of the sure tests of a composer's stature is how Grimes reacts to success. The furore over Peter Grimes both at home and abroad after its premiere in 1945 was possibly more remarkable than that ...
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One of the sure tests of a composer's stature is how Grimes reacts to success. The furore over Peter Grimes both at home and abroad after its premiere in 1945 was possibly more remarkable than that accorded any other opera this century. Grimes was a success from the start, and the sort of success that might have tempted a lesser composer to continue in the same vein. The Rape of Lucretia, first performed a little more than a year after Grimes, represents a radical departure from the earlier work in more ways than one. The chamber proportions and scoring of Lucretia can of course be explained by practical considerations, which were always a creative challenge for Britten. Indeed, it led to the withdrawal of Peter Grimes from the repertory after a surprisingly small number of performances.Less
One of the sure tests of a composer's stature is how Grimes reacts to success. The furore over Peter Grimes both at home and abroad after its premiere in 1945 was possibly more remarkable than that accorded any other opera this century. Grimes was a success from the start, and the sort of success that might have tempted a lesser composer to continue in the same vein. The Rape of Lucretia, first performed a little more than a year after Grimes, represents a radical departure from the earlier work in more ways than one. The chamber proportions and scoring of Lucretia can of course be explained by practical considerations, which were always a creative challenge for Britten. Indeed, it led to the withdrawal of Peter Grimes from the repertory after a surprisingly small number of performances.
Anise K. Strong (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474407847
- eISBN:
- 9781474430982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407847.003.0009
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter looks closely at the dominant female character of the first three seasons of the series—Lucretia, the wife of the gladiatorial ludus master Batiatus. It maintains that Lucretia's sexual ...
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This chapter looks closely at the dominant female character of the first three seasons of the series—Lucretia, the wife of the gladiatorial ludus master Batiatus. It maintains that Lucretia's sexual choices and, in particular, her relationship to the act of rape as portrayed in the series present an ongoing reflection on the depiction of rape in modern historical fiction to assert power and to demean women. As the chapter argues, the question of rape in Spartacus is fraught with issues of power and its abuse, and it exposes how the series creators make a significant and meaningful distinction between implicit rape, which is depicted non-violently and often performed silently by extras, and the violent, explicitly abusive rape of named characters.Less
This chapter looks closely at the dominant female character of the first three seasons of the series—Lucretia, the wife of the gladiatorial ludus master Batiatus. It maintains that Lucretia's sexual choices and, in particular, her relationship to the act of rape as portrayed in the series present an ongoing reflection on the depiction of rape in modern historical fiction to assert power and to demean women. As the chapter argues, the question of rape in Spartacus is fraught with issues of power and its abuse, and it exposes how the series creators make a significant and meaningful distinction between implicit rape, which is depicted non-violently and often performed silently by extras, and the violent, explicitly abusive rape of named characters.
Jane Stabler
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199590247
- eISBN:
- 9780191766411
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590247.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, European Literature
Chapter 2 examines the twinning of literary and historical figures to shape voluntary and involuntary kinships within exile. Framed by the scandals of Caroline of Brunswick and Lucretia Borgia, the ...
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Chapter 2 examines the twinning of literary and historical figures to shape voluntary and involuntary kinships within exile. Framed by the scandals of Caroline of Brunswick and Lucretia Borgia, the chapter explores the Pisan circle’s expulsion from, and rejection of, English domestic mores. Comparing the travel writing of Anna Jameson, Fanny Kemble, and Lady Blessington, the chapter discusses the way in which Italy becomes the catalyst and backdrop for a succession of English women’s realizations of marital disillusionment in 19th-century literature. The chapter examines the role of the letter and the verse epistle in exiled writing and discusses the work of Walter Savage Landor, particularly his Imaginary Conversations to explore the idea of the trans-historical community of authors in exile. The importance of the book as material object comes under scrutinyLess
Chapter 2 examines the twinning of literary and historical figures to shape voluntary and involuntary kinships within exile. Framed by the scandals of Caroline of Brunswick and Lucretia Borgia, the chapter explores the Pisan circle’s expulsion from, and rejection of, English domestic mores. Comparing the travel writing of Anna Jameson, Fanny Kemble, and Lady Blessington, the chapter discusses the way in which Italy becomes the catalyst and backdrop for a succession of English women’s realizations of marital disillusionment in 19th-century literature. The chapter examines the role of the letter and the verse epistle in exiled writing and discusses the work of Walter Savage Landor, particularly his Imaginary Conversations to explore the idea of the trans-historical community of authors in exile. The importance of the book as material object comes under scrutiny
Philip Rupprecht (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199794805
- eISBN:
- 9780199345243
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794805.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This book offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the twentieth century. This book explores a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's extensive oeuvre across a ...
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This book offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the twentieth century. This book explores a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's extensive oeuvre across a range of genres, including opera, song cycle, and concert music. Well informed by earlier writings on the composer's professional career and private life, this book also uncovers many fresh lines of inquiry, from the Lord Chamberlain's last-minute censorship of the Rape of Lucretia libretto to psychoanalytic understandings of Britten's staging of gender roles; from the composer's delight in schoolboy humor to his operatic revival of Purcellian dance rhythms; from his creative responses to Cold-War-era internationalism to his dealings with BBC Television. Each chapter blends awareness of overarching contexts with insights into particular expressive achievements.Less
This book offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the twentieth century. This book explores a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's extensive oeuvre across a range of genres, including opera, song cycle, and concert music. Well informed by earlier writings on the composer's professional career and private life, this book also uncovers many fresh lines of inquiry, from the Lord Chamberlain's last-minute censorship of the Rape of Lucretia libretto to psychoanalytic understandings of Britten's staging of gender roles; from the composer's delight in schoolboy humor to his operatic revival of Purcellian dance rhythms; from his creative responses to Cold-War-era internationalism to his dealings with BBC Television. Each chapter blends awareness of overarching contexts with insights into particular expressive achievements.
Steven B. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300198393
- eISBN:
- 9780300220988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300198393.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Machiavelli is often described as the founder of modernity for his claim to have discovered a new kind of politics. Yet what is most characteristic of the great Florentine was his creation of a new ...
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Machiavelli is often described as the founder of modernity for his claim to have discovered a new kind of politics. Yet what is most characteristic of the great Florentine was his creation of a new “protean” image of human nature as infinitely malleable and adaptive to new and changing circumstances. This concept of free individuality is given vivid expression in Machiavelli’s play Mandragola, a satire on family life in which he applies the same methods of innovation, novelty, and audacity to private life as he does to the founding of states. Despite the play’s seemingly innocuous exterior, it presents the overthrow of the traditional family and the creation of a new domestic order. The play represents nothing less than the founding of Machiavelli’s new family values.Less
Machiavelli is often described as the founder of modernity for his claim to have discovered a new kind of politics. Yet what is most characteristic of the great Florentine was his creation of a new “protean” image of human nature as infinitely malleable and adaptive to new and changing circumstances. This concept of free individuality is given vivid expression in Machiavelli’s play Mandragola, a satire on family life in which he applies the same methods of innovation, novelty, and audacity to private life as he does to the founding of states. Despite the play’s seemingly innocuous exterior, it presents the overthrow of the traditional family and the creation of a new domestic order. The play represents nothing less than the founding of Machiavelli’s new family values.
Lisa Pace Vetter
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479853342
- eISBN:
- 9781479867752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479853342.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Lucretia Mott’s Quaker speeches and other writings are examined to show that her contributions to political theory are shaped by a radically antidogmatic worldview rooted in her progressive religious ...
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Lucretia Mott’s Quaker speeches and other writings are examined to show that her contributions to political theory are shaped by a radically antidogmatic worldview rooted in her progressive religious faith, an unwavering commitment to autonomy for all people, and an egalitarian conception of power. Mott proposes a dialectical, self-reflective, critical approach that serves as the basis of political citizenship. By exposing the hidden sources of inequality, oppression, and injustice, her approach empowers human beings to shape an egalitarian, voluntarist political system. This in turn allows Mott to argue for abolitionism and expanding women’s rights, including suffrage. Moreover, like Sarah Grimké, Mott also reflects important aspects of early Quaker constitutionalism by emphasizing the importance of human reason guided by the inner light and the role of deliberation in fashioning a government based on authentic consent.Less
Lucretia Mott’s Quaker speeches and other writings are examined to show that her contributions to political theory are shaped by a radically antidogmatic worldview rooted in her progressive religious faith, an unwavering commitment to autonomy for all people, and an egalitarian conception of power. Mott proposes a dialectical, self-reflective, critical approach that serves as the basis of political citizenship. By exposing the hidden sources of inequality, oppression, and injustice, her approach empowers human beings to shape an egalitarian, voluntarist political system. This in turn allows Mott to argue for abolitionism and expanding women’s rights, including suffrage. Moreover, like Sarah Grimké, Mott also reflects important aspects of early Quaker constitutionalism by emphasizing the importance of human reason guided by the inner light and the role of deliberation in fashioning a government based on authentic consent.
Monica S. Cyrino (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474407847
- eISBN:
- 9781474430982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407847.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter considers the depiction of the ambitious, ruthless couple Batiatus and Lucretia and their scheming aspirations to turn their ludus into the foremost gladiator spectacle business in ...
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This chapter considers the depiction of the ambitious, ruthless couple Batiatus and Lucretia and their scheming aspirations to turn their ludus into the foremost gladiator spectacle business in Capua. Although their plans for upward mobility utilize violence, sexual manipulation, and multiple murders, the chapter claims that this does not diminish the characters' appeal to viewers, due to a pair of robust and sympathetic performances by the actors who play them. This chapter argues that the series successfully uses visual and narrative strategies to do something innovative within both the epic cinematic tradition and the Spartacus reception tradition: STARZ Spartacus invites the audience to transfer their allegiance away from the Roman elite and the rebel slaves, and identify with the cunning bourgeois boot-strappers at the head of the House of Batiatus.Less
This chapter considers the depiction of the ambitious, ruthless couple Batiatus and Lucretia and their scheming aspirations to turn their ludus into the foremost gladiator spectacle business in Capua. Although their plans for upward mobility utilize violence, sexual manipulation, and multiple murders, the chapter claims that this does not diminish the characters' appeal to viewers, due to a pair of robust and sympathetic performances by the actors who play them. This chapter argues that the series successfully uses visual and narrative strategies to do something innovative within both the epic cinematic tradition and the Spartacus reception tradition: STARZ Spartacus invites the audience to transfer their allegiance away from the Roman elite and the rebel slaves, and identify with the cunning bourgeois boot-strappers at the head of the House of Batiatus.
Paul Kildea
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199794805
- eISBN:
- 9780199345243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794805.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter examines the conflict between disclosure and concealment common to Britten's life and his art. Britten's development of an operatic technique coincided precisely with his personal ...
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This chapter examines the conflict between disclosure and concealment common to Britten's life and his art. Britten's development of an operatic technique coincided precisely with his personal acknowledgment of his own homosexuality. The chapter illustrates how ambiguities of presentation and interpretation run through all Britten's staged dramas, by examining specific libretto changes required by the Lord Chamberlain's censor before The Rape of Lucretia could be approved for stage production. In all of his operas, Britten's technique was necessarily one of camouflage, leaving the precise motivations and behavior of those represented onstage meaningfully open.Less
This chapter examines the conflict between disclosure and concealment common to Britten's life and his art. Britten's development of an operatic technique coincided precisely with his personal acknowledgment of his own homosexuality. The chapter illustrates how ambiguities of presentation and interpretation run through all Britten's staged dramas, by examining specific libretto changes required by the Lord Chamberlain's censor before The Rape of Lucretia could be approved for stage production. In all of his operas, Britten's technique was necessarily one of camouflage, leaving the precise motivations and behavior of those represented onstage meaningfully open.
J. P. E. Harper-Scott
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199794805
- eISBN:
- 9780199345243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794805.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter attempts to reverse the appropriation of the suffering of women in Britten's operas by a politically resolute group of men. It also suggests that Britten is not so straightforwardly a ...
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This chapter attempts to reverse the appropriation of the suffering of women in Britten's operas by a politically resolute group of men. It also suggests that Britten is not so straightforwardly a champion of the underdog as his students are liable to claim. The analysis focuses on the operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.Less
This chapter attempts to reverse the appropriation of the suffering of women in Britten's operas by a politically resolute group of men. It also suggests that Britten is not so straightforwardly a champion of the underdog as his students are liable to claim. The analysis focuses on the operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
T.P. Wiseman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780859898225
- eISBN:
- 9781781385500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780859898225.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
The historical tradition attributes five different consuls to the first year of the Roman republic, clear evidence of rival foundation legends that originally had no connection with each other; for ...
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The historical tradition attributes five different consuls to the first year of the Roman republic, clear evidence of rival foundation legends that originally had no connection with each other; for instance, the Brutus and Lucretia stories are linked only by the obviously contrived presence of Brutus at Lucretia's suicide. The later histories of the families involved – and also those celebrated in heroic stories of Year Two – allow us to guess when the respective stories originated: fifth century BC or early fourth (Lucretii, Horatii, Cloelii), late fourth (Iunii), late third (Mucii). The same can be done with some of the Roman kings, whose stories probably took shape in the fifth (Tullius), fourth (Marcius) and third (Hostilius) centuries BC. Porsenna of Clusium was evidently a historical figure, about whom fragments of an earlier tradition happen to survive, quite inconsistent with the narratives in Livy, Dionysius and Plutarch. It is precisely the awkward, undigested details that are likely to be authentic.Less
The historical tradition attributes five different consuls to the first year of the Roman republic, clear evidence of rival foundation legends that originally had no connection with each other; for instance, the Brutus and Lucretia stories are linked only by the obviously contrived presence of Brutus at Lucretia's suicide. The later histories of the families involved – and also those celebrated in heroic stories of Year Two – allow us to guess when the respective stories originated: fifth century BC or early fourth (Lucretii, Horatii, Cloelii), late fourth (Iunii), late third (Mucii). The same can be done with some of the Roman kings, whose stories probably took shape in the fifth (Tullius), fourth (Marcius) and third (Hostilius) centuries BC. Porsenna of Clusium was evidently a historical figure, about whom fragments of an earlier tradition happen to survive, quite inconsistent with the narratives in Livy, Dionysius and Plutarch. It is precisely the awkward, undigested details that are likely to be authentic.
Katherine Gillen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474417716
- eISBN:
- 9781474434539
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417716.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter addresses chastity’s role in English (and British) national identity, arguing that Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece and Cymbeline question the Roman myth’s application in early capitalist ...
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This chapter addresses chastity’s role in English (and British) national identity, arguing that Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece and Cymbeline question the Roman myth’s application in early capitalist England. In particular, both works employ chastity-as-treasure tropes tointerrogate the ways in which commercial models disrupt national ideologies that align Elizabeth I’s virgin body with the integrity of the state. The Rape of Lucrece exposes the ways in which mercantile treasure discourse invites sexual violence, compromising a woman who metonymically symbolises the state. In Cymbeline, Shakespeare reconfigures the Lucretia myth so as to articulate a revised mode of chaste national thinking suited to a nation headed by a male monarch and aspiring to become an imperial mercantile power. By transforming Innogen’s jewellery into currency that circulates in her name, Shakespeare infuses Britain’s expanding mercantile sphere—and its imperial projects—with chaste, white legitimacy while removing the physical female body from its once central place in the national imaginary.Less
This chapter addresses chastity’s role in English (and British) national identity, arguing that Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece and Cymbeline question the Roman myth’s application in early capitalist England. In particular, both works employ chastity-as-treasure tropes tointerrogate the ways in which commercial models disrupt national ideologies that align Elizabeth I’s virgin body with the integrity of the state. The Rape of Lucrece exposes the ways in which mercantile treasure discourse invites sexual violence, compromising a woman who metonymically symbolises the state. In Cymbeline, Shakespeare reconfigures the Lucretia myth so as to articulate a revised mode of chaste national thinking suited to a nation headed by a male monarch and aspiring to become an imperial mercantile power. By transforming Innogen’s jewellery into currency that circulates in her name, Shakespeare infuses Britain’s expanding mercantile sphere—and its imperial projects—with chaste, white legitimacy while removing the physical female body from its once central place in the national imaginary.
Jill Norgren
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814758625
- eISBN:
- 9780814758632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814758625.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter discusses women's changing role in society after the Revolutionary War. The war created opportunities for women to participate in the fight against England. However, neither the ...
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This chapter discusses women's changing role in society after the Revolutionary War. The war created opportunities for women to participate in the fight against England. However, neither the Declaration of Independence nor the United States Constitution took note of women's rights. In the world of politics, traditional male power prevailed and social custom did not change. Men counseled politically inclined women to become peacemaking negotiators rather than full-fledged players. Ironically, as men pushed women away from electoral politics, nineteenth-century improvements in transportation, increased literacy, and urbanization encouraged new ideas about what was right, proper, and possible, opening other roles to women. In the early republic, women stepped out of their homes and into their communities ready to expand the ways in which they improved the lives of their children, their communities, and themselves. This activism was led by a handful of courageous women who proved to be exceptionally able theoreticians, agitators, and organizers: African American abolitionist and lecturer Maria Stewart; Quaker minister Lucretia Mott; abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké; intellectual Margaret Fuller; writer and social reformer Frances Wright. Each asserted the right of respectable women to talk in public even when what they had to say was controversial.Less
This chapter discusses women's changing role in society after the Revolutionary War. The war created opportunities for women to participate in the fight against England. However, neither the Declaration of Independence nor the United States Constitution took note of women's rights. In the world of politics, traditional male power prevailed and social custom did not change. Men counseled politically inclined women to become peacemaking negotiators rather than full-fledged players. Ironically, as men pushed women away from electoral politics, nineteenth-century improvements in transportation, increased literacy, and urbanization encouraged new ideas about what was right, proper, and possible, opening other roles to women. In the early republic, women stepped out of their homes and into their communities ready to expand the ways in which they improved the lives of their children, their communities, and themselves. This activism was led by a handful of courageous women who proved to be exceptionally able theoreticians, agitators, and organizers: African American abolitionist and lecturer Maria Stewart; Quaker minister Lucretia Mott; abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké; intellectual Margaret Fuller; writer and social reformer Frances Wright. Each asserted the right of respectable women to talk in public even when what they had to say was controversial.
Jill Norgren
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814758625
- eISBN:
- 9780814758632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814758625.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter discusses women's changing role in society after the Revolutionary War. The war created opportunities for women to participate in the fight against England. However, neither the ...
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This chapter discusses women's changing role in society after the Revolutionary War. The war created opportunities for women to participate in the fight against England. However, neither the Declaration of Independence nor the United States Constitution took note of women's rights. In the world of politics, traditional male power prevailed and social custom did not change. Men counseled politically inclined women to become peacemaking negotiators rather than full-fledged players. Ironically, as men pushed women away from electoral politics, nineteenth-century improvements in transportation, increased literacy, and urbanization encouraged new ideas about what was right, proper, and possible, opening other roles to women. In the early republic, women stepped out of their homes and into their communities ready to expand the ways in which they improved the lives of their children, their communities, and themselves. This activism was led by a handful of courageous women who proved to be exceptionally able theoreticians, agitators, and organizers: African American abolitionist and lecturer Maria Stewart; Quaker minister Lucretia Mott; abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké; intellectual Margaret Fuller; writer and social reformer Frances Wright. Each asserted the right of respectable women to talk in public even when what they had to say was controversial.
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This chapter discusses women's changing role in society after the Revolutionary War. The war created opportunities for women to participate in the fight against England. However, neither the Declaration of Independence nor the United States Constitution took note of women's rights. In the world of politics, traditional male power prevailed and social custom did not change. Men counseled politically inclined women to become peacemaking negotiators rather than full-fledged players. Ironically, as men pushed women away from electoral politics, nineteenth-century improvements in transportation, increased literacy, and urbanization encouraged new ideas about what was right, proper, and possible, opening other roles to women. In the early republic, women stepped out of their homes and into their communities ready to expand the ways in which they improved the lives of their children, their communities, and themselves. This activism was led by a handful of courageous women who proved to be exceptionally able theoreticians, agitators, and organizers: African American abolitionist and lecturer Maria Stewart; Quaker minister Lucretia Mott; abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké; intellectual Margaret Fuller; writer and social reformer Frances Wright. Each asserted the right of respectable women to talk in public even when what they had to say was controversial.
Nancy A. Hewitt
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469640327
- eISBN:
- 9781469640334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640327.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In 1847-1848, the Posts participated in numerous efforts to advance social justice and religious liberty. When Douglass launched the North Star in Rochester, the Posts were drawn further into ...
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In 1847-1848, the Posts participated in numerous efforts to advance social justice and religious liberty. When Douglass launched the North Star in Rochester, the Posts were drawn further into interracial circles. Douglass’s co-editor, William Nell lived with the Posts; and he and Amy became fast friends. Douglass’ coverage of European revolutions and critiques of he Mexican-American War tied local radicals to international struggles. The Posts’ daughter Mary and her husband William Hallowell and Amy’s sister Sarah joined in activist ventures. They also helped with housework and childcare as Amy participated in dozens of WNYASS antislavery fairs and annual Emancipation Day celebrations; joined Douglass, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention; embraced spiritualism and the newly-established Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends; assisted fugitive slaves; and led efforts to organize the Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention and a local Working Women’s Protective Union. The Posts lived their politics at home, boycotting slave-produced goods and inviting their household workers to join in their activities. Although Douglass and Nell joined Post in advocating woman’s rights, Amy was unable to induce local African American women to participate in these activities.Less
In 1847-1848, the Posts participated in numerous efforts to advance social justice and religious liberty. When Douglass launched the North Star in Rochester, the Posts were drawn further into interracial circles. Douglass’s co-editor, William Nell lived with the Posts; and he and Amy became fast friends. Douglass’ coverage of European revolutions and critiques of he Mexican-American War tied local radicals to international struggles. The Posts’ daughter Mary and her husband William Hallowell and Amy’s sister Sarah joined in activist ventures. They also helped with housework and childcare as Amy participated in dozens of WNYASS antislavery fairs and annual Emancipation Day celebrations; joined Douglass, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention; embraced spiritualism and the newly-established Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends; assisted fugitive slaves; and led efforts to organize the Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention and a local Working Women’s Protective Union. The Posts lived their politics at home, boycotting slave-produced goods and inviting their household workers to join in their activities. Although Douglass and Nell joined Post in advocating woman’s rights, Amy was unable to induce local African American women to participate in these activities.
Thomas D. Hamm
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038266
- eISBN:
- 9780252096129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038266.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter focuses on the antebellum era, a critical period of transformation and dissension. Concentrating on the prominent minister George F. White, it reveals how White's opposition to ...
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This chapter focuses on the antebellum era, a critical period of transformation and dissension. Concentrating on the prominent minister George F. White, it reveals how White's opposition to abolitionists such as Lucretia Mott was rooted in his experience as a supporter of Elias Hicks, whose controversial teachings helped fracture American Quakerism in the 1820s. In the 1840s, White was the most controversial, polarizing figure in Hicksite Quakerism. He felt it his duty to use his unquestioned talents to warn Friends, in the most forceful terms, against participating in antislavery, temperance, nonresistance, and other reform movements that many saw as advancing Quaker testimonies. The controversy over his crusade against reform movements would ultimately help fracture every Hicksite yearly meeting except Baltimore and change the course of Hicksite Quakerism.Less
This chapter focuses on the antebellum era, a critical period of transformation and dissension. Concentrating on the prominent minister George F. White, it reveals how White's opposition to abolitionists such as Lucretia Mott was rooted in his experience as a supporter of Elias Hicks, whose controversial teachings helped fracture American Quakerism in the 1820s. In the 1840s, White was the most controversial, polarizing figure in Hicksite Quakerism. He felt it his duty to use his unquestioned talents to warn Friends, in the most forceful terms, against participating in antislavery, temperance, nonresistance, and other reform movements that many saw as advancing Quaker testimonies. The controversy over his crusade against reform movements would ultimately help fracture every Hicksite yearly meeting except Baltimore and change the course of Hicksite Quakerism.
