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  2. Shakespeare's late romances - Wikipedia

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    The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; and The Tempest. The Two Noble Kinsmen , of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping.

  3. Sonnet 62 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 62 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, addressed to the young man with whom Shakespeare shares an intimate but tormented connection. This sonnet brings together a number of themes that run through the cycle: the speaker's awareness of social and ...

  4. Sonnet 120 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 120 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Structure

  5. The Rape of Lucrece - Wikipedia

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    Tarquin and Lucretia by Titian. 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".

  6. A Lover's Complaint - Wikipedia

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    "A Lover's Complaint" is a narrative poem written by William Shakespeare, and published as part of the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It was published by Thomas Thorpe . "A Lover’s Complaint" is an example of the female-voiced complaint, which is frequently appended to sonnet sequences.

  7. Sonnet 36 - Wikipedia

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    The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co.. Schaar, Cales (1962). Elizabethan Sonnet Themes and the Dating of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Hakan Ohlssons Boktryckeri, Lund. Schoenfeldt, Michael (2007). The Sonnets: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry. Patrick Cheney, Cambridge University Press ...

  8. Sonnet 87 - Wikipedia

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    sonnet 87 reads very much like a break-up poem, which would suggest a romantic theme to it, and because of the sonnet's addressee, the suggestion turns into a homosexual romance. At the very least, Shakespeare thinks that he owes it to the youth to break up with him, due to what Pequigney calls "the narcissistic wound".

  9. Sonnet 68 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 68 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.