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William Shakespeare

• Contents

The Man
• Timeline
• Gallery
• Links

Tragedies
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Coriolanus
• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
  

Histories
• King Henry IV Part 1
• King Henry IV Part 2
• King Henry V
• King Henry VI Part 1
• King Henry VI Part 2
• King Henry VI Part 3
• King Henry VIII
• King John
• Richard II
• Richard III

Comedies
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• Cymbeline
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Measure for Measure
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter's Tale
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night

Poetry
• A Lover's Complaint
• Sonnets 1 to 50
• Sonnets 50 to 100
• Sonnets 100 to 154
• The Passionate Pilgrim
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• The Rape of Lucrece
• Venus and Adonis

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,

EARL OF SOUTHHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.

THE love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would show greater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness.

Your lordship's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Contents

• Dedication
• The Argument
• The Rape of Lucrece

External Links

• Wikipedia
• Study Guide
• Summary by Michael McGoodwin
• Analysis by Michael Delahoyde

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