Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Second Department
Art History
Reader 1
Professor Tessie Prakas
Reader 2
Professor George Gorse
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Jenna T Thrasher
Abstract
I illuminate how fusing together page and portrait renders that while Shakespeare’s texts reveal why Cleopatra and Lucretia commit suicide and the biases placed against them, Gentileschi’s paintings allow both women to exist in their own context, such that they are defined not by their relations to men but are allowed to be autonomous in how they commit suicide.
Recommended Citation
Thrasher, Jenna, "SEX, SPECTACLE, AND SUICIDE: CLEOPATRA AND LUCRETIA IN THE RENAISSANCE" (2025). Scripps Senior Theses. 2455.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2455
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
