TY - JOUR
TI -  “Lawes of the Forrest”: Mapping Violence on the Female Bodyscape in Titus Andronicus
AU - Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna
TI -  “Lawes of the Forrest”: Mapping Violence on the Female Bodyscape in Titus Andronicus
AB - 
	This paper discusses the definition of the forest as a space regulated by the repetitive act of appropriation on the part of the royal authority as well as the correspondences between the rhetoric of forest possession and the construction of another locus communis for the political use of nature, i.e. female body. Spatialization/naturalization of the female body in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is introduced with the use of the interlocking imaginary topographies of “feminized” topography of Rome and that of the forest as a whore. It is between these two that the politicized female bodies of Lavinia and Tamora oscillate, mapped in language as bodyscapes, onto which violence of “lawes of the forrest” is inscribed.
	 

	Research for this article was financed by the Polish National Science Centre grant no DEC-2012/05/N/HS2/00331.
VL - 2014
IS - Numer 4 (22) 2014: Czytanie Błońskiego
PY - 2015
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 105
EP - 116
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.14.051.3460
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/wieloglos/artykul/lawes-of-the-forrest-mapping-violence-on-the-female-bodyscape-in-titus-andronicus
KW - bodyscape
KW - law
KW - Titus Andronicus
KW - violence