Lucretia’s Lines of Flight

Lucretia’s rape and her inner turmoil after the violation has been subject of countless poems, dramas, paintings, musical compositions over past two millennia. In my paper, I focus on how myth Lucretia appears Benjamin Britten’s opera, The Rape (1946). particular, would like to address 2013 Glyndebourne performance directed by Fiona Shaw (and adapted screen Francois Roussillon [2015]). will examine departs from Britten, staging enters into discussion with long-standing interpretive traditions re-create ethical psychological stance.