‘Lukretia geschonden zach geen wraak, ik al’: Juliane als Lucretia en Medea in Geeraardt Brandts De Veinzende Torquatus (1645)

Scholarship of early modern revenge tragedies has in recent years increasingly focussed on the interplay and sexual violence. This article explores this one such tragedy, Geeraardt Brandt’s Dutch The Feigning Torquatus (De Veinzende Torquatus, 1645), through a study mythological subtext. character Juliane, who is raped stage later avenges herself her rapist, connected textually subtextually to topoi Lucretia vengeful woman. I argue that these elevate Juliane’s from private public justice, finally divine retribution. case contributes growing scholarship into gendered period.