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.
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”, which is a prose paragraph that contains a synopsis of the story and some background.
The poem contains 1,855 lines, divided into 265 stanzas of seven lines each. The rhythm of each line is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABBCC, a format known as "rhyme royal”, which has been used by Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and John Masefield.
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Título : The Rape Of Lucrece (Zongo Classics)
EAN : 9781342614933
Editorial : Zongo
Fecha de publicación
: 7/4/17
Formato : ePub
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