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William Shakespeare
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Publication Date:
2004
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Little is known about Shakespeare's early years. His father, John
Shakespeare, was a glover and dealer in commodities and was a man of
some standing in the local community. His mother, Mary Arden, was of
higher social class. Shakespeare seems to have attended the local grammar
school at Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was born, but no records remain.
In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older
than he was, and they had three children by 1585. His time from then until
1592 remains a mystery. In 1594, however, he became a leading member of
the newly formed acting company the Lord Chamberlain's Men (who became
the King's Men at the accession of James I) and he remained with them for
the rest of his career. In 1599 the company occupied the Globe theatre in
London and in 1608 took over Blackfriars as a winter house. Shakespeare
lived and worked in London, but his family remained in Stratford.
Shakespeare's plays are still performed with more regularity than those of
any other playwright and film versions frequently appear.
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THRENOS.
Leaving no posterity:--
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.
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TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
Earl of Southampton, 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.
The Argument
Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus, after he had
caused his own father-in-law Servius Tullius to be cruelly murdered, and,
contrary to the Roman laws and customs, not requiring or staying for the
people's suffrages, had possessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied
with his sons and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. During which
siege the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of
Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after supper every
one commended the virtues of his own wife: among whom Collatinus extolled
the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia. In that pleasant humour
they posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to
make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus
finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her
maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several
disports. Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus the victory, and his
wife the fame. At that time Sextus Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece'
beauty, yet smothering his passions for the present, departed with the rest
back to the camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself,
and was, according to his estate, royally entertained and lodged by Lucrece
at Collatium. The same night he treacherously stealeth into her chamber,
violently ravished her, and early in the morning speedeth away. Lucrece, in
this lamentable plight, hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her
father, another to the camp for Collatine. They came, the one accompanied
with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius; and finding Lucrece
attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause of her sorrow. She, first
taking an oath of them for her revenge, revealed the actor, and whole
manner of his dealing, and withal suddenly stabbed herself. Which done,
with one consent they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the
Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted the people
with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a bitter invective against
the tyranny of the king: wherewith the people were so moved, that with one
consent and a general acclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the
state government changed from kings to consuls.
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TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.
RIGHT HONORABLE,
Now which way shall she turn? what shall she say?
Her words are done, her woes are more increasing;
The time is spent, her object will away,
And from her twining arms doth urge releasing.
'Pity,' she cries, 'some favour, some remorse!'
Away he springs and hasteth to his horse.
I know not love,' quoth he, 'nor will not know it,
Unless it be a boar, and then I chase it;
'Tis much to borrow, and I will not owe it;
My love to love is love but to disgrace it;
For I have heard it is a life in death,
That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.
'Fair queen,' quoth he, 'if any love you owe me,
Measure my strangeness with my unripe years:
Before I know myself, seek not to know me;
No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears:
The mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast,
Or being early pluck'd is sour to taste.
'Thou hadst been gone,' quoth she, 'sweet boy, ere this,
But that thou told'st me thou wouldst hunt the boar.
O, be advised! thou know'st not what it is
With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore,
Whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still,
Like to a mortal butcher bent to kill.
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