The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus...

the subject of Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia (Ficherelli), several c. late 1630s paintings attributed to Felice Ficherelli The Rape of Lucrece...

André Obey's play Le Viol de Lucrèce [fr]. The opera was first performed at Glyndebourne in England on 12 July 1946. It is the first work to which Britten...

[ɫʊˈkreːtia]; died c.  510 BC), anglicized as Lucrece, was a noblewoman in ancient Rome. Sextus Tarquinius (Tarquin) raped her and her subsequent suicide precipitated...

publication of the First Folio: from the first publications of Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), 78 individual printed editions of his works...

of Southampton. In Venus and Adonis, an innocent Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; while in The Rape of Lucrece, the virtuous wife Lucrece...

periodically would use the gesture in his works to portray lust or passion for another character, as used in his poem The Rape of Lucrece. In his time, eye-rolling...

poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to Southampton, who is frequently identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Henry...

of Lucretia - Joos Van Cleve (c. 1520–1525) The story of Lucretia's rape is the subject of William Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece,...

audiobook. The audiobook also includes The Rape of Lucrece. Richard Burton recorded a spoken word album of the poem for Caedmon Records. The title of the theme...