The Rape of Lucrece
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The Rape of Lucrece is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare had included a dedicatory le
Tarquin and Lucretia by Titian
Lucretia, Rembrandt, 1666
Title page of the sixth edition of The Rape of Lucrece (1616).
The suicide of Lucretia, by Jörg Breu the Elder
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is considered likely to be Shakespeare's first publication.
The Rape of Lucrece
…The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour…
Title page of the first quarto (1593)
Venus seducing Adonis as depicted by Nicolas Poussin, c.1626, a re-united painting. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France.