TY - JOUR
AU - De Bruyn, Yannice
AB - Why was rape such a popular metaphor for war in early modern Dutch theatrical and visual culture? To address this question, this article considers a range of theatrical and visual representations of rape. When serving as a representation of state, the female body was often used to represent abstract processes such as the accumulation of wealth or inimical intrusion. These seemingly opposing processes are conjoined in a late seventeenth‐century Dutch allegorical play that not only features rape as a metaphor for war but also extends this metaphor to raise questions about national integrity and the deleterious effects of wealth accumulation.
TI - ‘Help! Help! War wants to rape me!’: War and Rape in a Dutch Peace Play of 1678
JF - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
DO - 10.1111/1754-0208.12578
DA - 2018-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/help-help-war-wants-to-rape-me-war-and-rape-in-a-dutch-peace-play-of-OHYl0vLxu4
SP - 489
EP - 509
VL - 41
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -