The Rape of Lucrece

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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".

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Image: William Shakespeare, author, Thomas Snodham, printer, Roger Jackson, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.