Rape of Lucrece

By Shakespeare

Book Id: WPLBN0003467221
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 32.49 MB
Reproduction Date: 2014

Title:	Rape of Lucrece
Author:	Shakespeare
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Language:	English
Subject:	Sacred Texts, Shakespeare Index, First Folio
Collections:	Sacred Texts
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Publisher:	Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA)


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Description
Description: The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary 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 write a graver work. Accordingly, The Rape of Lucrece lacks the humorous tone of the earlier poem