Shakespeare dedicated his narrative poems 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece' to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Was their relationship romantic? Would such a dedication, or even a relationship, stand out in Elizabethan England?
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