who were some of his influences for his writing style?
Ovid
William Shakespeare
Ovid
where did shakespeare work and what did he do He began a career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company what is his date of birth? His date of birth is unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April 1564 what are his professions? Playwright, poet, and actor what are some of his plays? "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello", "King Lear", and "Macbeth" what is the genre of the first play mentioned? Tragedy who are the characters appearing in this play? Prince Hamlet, his uncle, Claudius, Horatio, Polonius, Polonius's daughter, Ophelia was this performed live in a theatre during his time? Yes, Lord Chamberlain's Men played "Hamlet" what are some of the poems he wrote? "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece", "A Lover's Complaint"
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William Shakespeare [SEP] Poems
In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on sexual 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 rejects the sexual advances of Venus; while in "The Rape of Lucrece", the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lustful Tarquin. Influenced by Ovid's "Metamorphoses", the poems show the guilt and moral confusion that result from uncontrolled lust. Both proved popular and were often reprinted during Shakespeare's lifetime. A third narrative poem, "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor, was printed in the first edition of the "Sonnets" in 1609.