Ian Donaldson, The Rapes of Lucretia, Oxford: Oxford University Press. p20.
[ii] 关于夜莺的讨论,参考Jane Newman, “‘And let mild woman to him lose their mildness’: Philomela, female violence, and Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece,” Shakespeare Quarterly, v45, issue 3 (Autume, 1994), 304-326.
[iv] 莎士比亚以喜剧方式写自杀的地方很多。参考 Martha Tuck Rozett, “The comic structure of tragic endings: the suicide scene in Romeo and Juliet and Anthony and Cleopatra,” Shakespeare Quarterly v36, issue 2 (summer, 1985).
[v] 参考 Judith Dundas, “Mocking the mind: the role of art in Shakespears’s Rape of Lucrece,” Sixteenth Century Journal, v14, issue 1(Spring, 1983), 13-22.