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These five functions remain intact but evolve in accordance with historical and social context, the real societal conditions and common perception of women influencing each work's representation of rape. In the 12th century, Chrétien de Troyes' atypical Arthurian romances were still largely focused on the male characters, favoring their development over the female characters'. In the 16th century, Spenser also favored the male point of view but problematized his re-imagined Arthurian legend with male anxiety about women in power and the changing colonial military understanding of Elizabethan England. In the late 20th century, Bradley injected the myths with the female voice, undermining the phallocentric take on rape by writing it from the victim's point of view.","abstract_html":"This work explores the evolution of troped rape in Arthurian literature from the 12th century to modern day. 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