Shakespeare/Poems and Sonnets
SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in
the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving
works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays
have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
POEMS
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In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare
published two narrative poems on erotic themes, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of
Lucrece. He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In Venus
and Adonis, an innocent Adonis...