Venus and adonis

Name: Venus and adonis
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780140436839

William Shakespeare

27/08/1998
Penguin Books

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Couverture de Venus and adonis par William Shakespeare

Résumé

This edition contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle and The Passionate Pilgrim. Shakespeare was already established as a major dramatist when he wrote Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, both dedicated to Henry Wriothesley. At one level both are 'display' poems designed to entertain a sophisticated courtly circle, but they also reveal Shakespeare's preoccupation with the nature of love and lust and the ensuing conflict between reason and passion. In ThePheonix and the Turtle, Shakespeare's most ambiguous and controversial poem, the theme of eternal love and fidelity is expressed in some of his most versatile and dazzling language.