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Variable passions : a reading of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mortimer, Anthony Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : AMS Press, [2000]
Series:AMS studies in the Renaissance ; no. 36.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Venus and Adonis.
English poetry > Italian influences.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Adonis (Greek deity) in literature.
Venus (Roman deity) in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Rhetoric, myth and the descent of Venus
  • "The heart's attorney": Venus as wooer
  • "Danger deviseth shifts": postponing the boar
  • "With him is beauty slain": death and metamorphosis
  • Shakespeare and the Italian tradition of Venus and Adonis.