Venus and Adonis & The Rape of Lucrece
By William Shakespeare
Read by David Burke, Eve Best, Clare Corbett, Benjamin Soames, Oliver Le Sueur, Ruth Sillers, and various narrators
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These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In “Venus and Adonis,” the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love—but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious “The Rape of Lucrece,” Shakespeare draws on the Roman tale of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences.
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These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In “Venus and Adonis,” the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love—but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious “The Rape of Lucrece,” Shakespeare draws on the Roman tale of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences.
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Author Bio: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Runtime: | 3.31 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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