Venus and Adonis
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In Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, Venus complains of the pain caused by Adonis’ glance: “Thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me.”
From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2020
Venus and Adonis: Shakespeare’s Epic Poems Part 1 Radio-style show celebrates the poetry of the Bard.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2019
The fourth man holds a fritillary and an ear of sweetcorn - plants which Griffiths says point to Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis and his play Titus Andronicus.
From BBC • May 19, 2015
Two recent productions, The Tempest and a staging of Shakespeare's epic poem Venus and Adonis, have been collaborations with London's Little Angel puppet theatre.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012
His friends and kinsmen were Essex, Lord Southampton, the latter to whom he dedicated his Venus and Adonis, had like himself married a sister Vernon, a cousin of Lord Essex.
From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Surtees, Scott
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