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The Bible in Shakespeare Columbus, Ohio: The Lutheran Book Concern, n.d. Anders, Henry R. D. “Chapter 6: The Bible and the Prayer Book” Shakespeare’s Books: A Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Reading and the Immediate Sources of His Works Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1904.
Title page of the first quarto (1593) of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, printed by Richard Field, adorned with his emblem the Anchora Spei, "anchor of hope.". Richard Field (or Feild) (1561–1624) was a printer and publisher in Elizabethan London, best known for his close association with the poems of William Shakespeare, with whom he grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Venus and Adonis, of which there are versions from the 1520s onward; Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Augsburg), 1562; Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Madrid), 1580; Venus and Adonis, c. 1626; Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1614) Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1635)
Shakespeare's first published work, Venus and Adonis, was registered with the Stationers' Company on 18 April 1593, with no named author, and appears to have been on sale—now with his name included—by 12 June, when a copy is first known to have been bought. [37]
Counting by number of editions published before 1623, the best-selling works were Venus and Adonis (12 editions), The Rape of Lucrece (6 editions), and Henry IV, Part 1 (6 editions). Of the 23 editions of the poems, 16 were published in octavo; the rest, and almost all of the editions of the plays, were printed in quarto. [8]
Rubens’s Venus and Adonis was most likely painted as decoration for a large country house. The first records of the painting’s history were from the collection of the Elector of Bavaria, where it was held until 1706.It was then taken by Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor who then presented it to John Churchill at Blenheim Palace until it was sold by the 8th Duke of Marlborough [3] In 1937, it ...
The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name "William Shakespeare", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period. [203]
William Shakespeare's erotic narrative poem Venus and Adonis (1593), a retelling of the courtship of Aphrodite and Adonis from Ovid's Metamorphoses, [55] [56] was the most popular of all his works published within his own lifetime.