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The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece

Shakespeare, William

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General PoetryGeneral World HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1678148873
ISBN13: 9781678148874
Publisher: Lulu Press
Published: Feb 16 2020
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. Accordingly, The Rape of Lucrece has a serious tone throughout.The poem begins with a prose dedication addressed directly to the Earl of Southampton, which begins, The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end. It refers to the poem as a pamphlet, which describes the form of its original publication of 1594.The dedication is followed by The Argument, a prose paragraph that summarizes the historical context of

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