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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.
The story of Venus and Adonis from Ovid's Metamorphoses was tremendously influential during the Elizabethan era. [54] In Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590), tapestries depicting the story of Adonis decorate the walls of Castle Joyous. [49] Later in the poem, Venus takes the character Amoretta to raise her in the "Garden of ...
"Venus and Adonis", a story from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses; Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Venus and Adonis (Constable poem), a poem by Henry Constable; Operas
Venus and Adonis is considered by some to be either a semi-opera or a masque, [4] but The New Grove names it as the earliest surviving English opera. In fact, an early manuscript source is subtitled "A masque for the entertainment of the king".
The myth of Myrrha and Cinyras is sung by Orpheus in the tenth book of Metamorphoses after he has told the myth of Pygmalion [d] and before he turns to the tale of Venus and Adonis. [20] As the myth of Myrrha is also the longest tale sung by Orpheus (205 lines) and the only story that corresponds to his announced theme of girls punished for ...
Tarquin and Lucretia by Titian. The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia.In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour".
Venus seems to have had no origin myth until her association with Greek Aphrodite. Venus-Aphrodite emerged, already in adult form, from the sea foam (Greek αφρός, aphros) produced by the severed genitals of Caelus-Uranus. [10] Roman theology presents Venus as the yielding, watery female principle, essential to the generation and balance of ...
Venus and Adonis, one of Titian's many portrayals of the myth Vénus et Adonis was Desmarets' eighth stage work and his third to be premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique. Between 1695 and 1697, Desmarets was working simultaneously on Vénus et Adonis , Les festes galantes (an opéra-ballet ), and another five-act tragédie en musique ...