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He gaped not for honor, nor thirsted for riches, but studied onely for the health of his soule: the savyng wherof, he estemed to bee the greatest wisedome” [Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, first published in 1548] (3.105). But Hall makes no biblical references when depicting Henry as a meek, pious ruler ...
Title page of the first quarto (1593). Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting.
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)
Bible of Kralice, first complete translation of Bible into Czech; Fray Juan de Plasencia – Doctrina Christiana, first book published in the Philippines, in Spanish and Tagalog; John Eliot – Ortho-epia Gallica; Claudius Hollyband (Claude de Sainliens) – A Dictionarie French and English; Richard Hooker – Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
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]
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.
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.
As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous & hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. [49] 1599 – William Jaggard published an octavo volume called The Passionate Pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare.