Introduction: stages of the soul and drama in poetry

Part I William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and the drama of the soul
1 Motivating the myth: allegory and psychology
2 'Thou art not what thou seem'st': Tarquin's inner stage and outer action
3 'But with my body my poor soul's pollution': Lucrece, her body, and soul
4 Lust-breathed Tarquin - Lucrece, the name of chaste: antagonism, parallelism, and chiasmus

Part II John Donne's Holy Sonnets and the so(u)le-talk of the soul
5 Divine comedies: the speaker, his soul, and the poem as stage
6 The sonnet as miniature drama: Donne's Holy Sonnet 'Oh my black Soule'
7 Sole-talk and soul-talk: Donne's so(u)liloquies in the Holy Sonnets
8 The speaker on the stage of the poem: Holy Sonnet 'This is my Playes last Scene'
9 Dialogue and antagonism in Donne's theatre of the soul

Part III Conclusion
10 So(u)le-talk, self, and stages of the soul

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Index