Venus and Adonis (Vol. 33) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Asals, Heather. "Venus and Adonis: The Education of the Goddess." Studies in English Literature 13, No. 1 (Winter 1973): 31-51.
Examines Venus's behavior in relation to Platonic doctrine and argues that Shakespeare's Venus progresses from a state of lust for Adonis to love for him. Asals goes on to analyze the type of death represented by the boar, as lust, and by Venus, as love.
Beauregard, David N. "Venus and Adonis: Shakespeare's Representation of the Passions." Shakespeare Studies VIII (1975): 83-98.
Maintains that the Renaissance concept of the "concupiscible" and "irascible" aspects of the human soul governs the action of the poem. Beauregard shows how concubiscibility gives rise to Venus's love, desire, and joy; and Adonis's hate, aversion, and sorrow, and how irascibility produces Venus's feelings of hope, despair, courage, fear, and anger after Adonis leaves her.
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