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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'. 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', a prose paragraph that summarizes the historical context of