What is The Rape of Lucrece?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Lucrece 1616.JPG|thumb|Title page, 1616 edition]] '''''The Rape of Lucrece''''' is a long [[poem]] by [[William Shakespeare]]. It was first published in 1594. It tells of the rape of Lucretia by Tarquin and her suicide. {{William Shakespeare|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rape of Lucrece}} [[Category:16th-century English poems]] [[Category:Poems by William Shakespeare]] [[Category:1590s books]] {{lit-stub}}