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2 author names match this search. Names and uncertain attributions are preserved as recorded.

VaVenus and Adonis William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis William Shakespeare

Dates not recorded · 1 collected ↗

Historical painted portraitChandos portrait; public domain · Public domain

William Shakespeare

English playwright, actor and poet whose dramatic characters speak from particular circumstances. Read the anthology’s lines with their speakers and scenes, rather than as a single collection of personal maxims.

Life dates: 1564 AD — 1616 AD · 2,660 collected ↗