408 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still the world's most ... A delightful work full of fantasy and poetry, it captures the lightness and absurdity at the heart of all relationships.

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece', were published and he dedicated them to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton.