lanselos_du_lac

"Thou wert violated," says Laertes, low. He's heard of bed-tricks like this, one bride replaced with another under cover of darkness, and heard young men laugh at the embarrassment of bedding anything but a beauty--but hearing Lancelot describe what happened, it's impossible to think of it as anything but a rape. "Then the woman thou servest punished thee for that violation. What an ugly thing it was that was done to thee--first by Elaine, and then by Guinevere."