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Sonnets and Poems
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Miniature books |
ISBN | : |
The Rape of Lucrece
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Joe Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1988120330 |
When the king's son hears the chastity of one of his father's advisors praised, he sets out to sully her name, with tragic consequences.
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印 |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
� Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus, after he had caused his own father-in-law Servius Tullius to be cruelly murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs, not requiring or staying for the people's suffrages, had possessed himself of the kingdom, went accompanied with his sons and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. During which siege the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife; among whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia. In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports. Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus the victory, and his wife the fame. At that time Sextus Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece' beauty, yet smothering his passions for the present, departed with the rest back to the camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself, and was, according to his estate, royally entertained and lodged by Lucrece at Collatium. The same night he treacherously stealeth into her chamber, violently ravished her, and early in the morning speedeth away. Lucrece, in this lamentable plight, hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her father, another to the camp for Collatine. They came, the one accompanied with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius; and finding Lucrece attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause of her sorrow. She, first taking an oath of them for her revenge, revealed the actor and whole manner of his dealing, and withal suddenly stabbed herself. Which done, with one consent they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted the people with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a bitter invective against the tyranny of the king: wherewith the people were so moved, that with one consent and a general acclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the state government changed from kings to consuls.
Shakespeare's Language
Author | : Frank Kermode |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0374527741 |
In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
The Rape of Lucrece
Author | : Уильям Шекспир |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040832591 |
The Rape of Lucrece (Annotated)
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533423863 |
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 has a serious tone throughout.