Ovid's MetamorphosisShakespeare copied Ovid avidly. Almost all of his allusions to Classical myth are believed to be based in Ovid, and the plots of many plays, including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, and The Comedy of Errors, are based on Ovid's poetry. Shakespeare's debt to Ovid, however, is most obvious in his poetry--the Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis, his narrative poems, along with his Sonnets.