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Venus and Adonis

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noun

  1. a narrative poem (1593) by Shakespeare.


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The project began when Turroni, 59, a writer and former tenor, approached Sciarrino with a draft libretto based on a version of the Venus and Adonis myth by the Italian Baroque poet Giambattista Marino.

From New York Times May 25, 2023

When an earlier outbreak closed the theatres in 1593, Shakespeare wrote the poem Venus and Adonis.

From Scientific American Mar. 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

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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