Daniel Swift

In a vale of tears

The Rape of Lucrece isn’t really a poem, and the rape isn’t really a rape. It’s a coded account of the destruction of Catholic England, argues Clare Asquith

issue 01 December 2018

  • Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny

    Clare Asquith

    Public Affairs, pp. 256

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