Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis Criticism

• Venus and Adonis (Vol. 67)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Venus and Adonis: The Education of a Goddess
    • Shakespeare's Venus: An Experiment in Tragedy
    • Venus and Adonis
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Venus and Adonis: Shakespeare's Representation of the Passions
    • Sexual Perversity in Venus and Adonis
    • Love as Trompe-l'oeil: Taxonomies of Desire in Venus and Adonis
    • Allegory to the Rescue: Saving Venus and Adonis from Themselves
  • Further Reading
• Venus and Adonis (Vol. 79)
  • Introduction
  • An Iconographical Interpretation of Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's Ovidian Comedy
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Reluctant Adonis: Titian and Shakespeare
    • ‘Upon Misprison Growing’: Venus and Adonis
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Myth of Mars's Hot Minion in Venus and Adonis
    • Ideal Conduct in Venus and Adonis
    • ‘Pining Their Maws’: Female Readers and the Erotic Ontology of the Text in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
    • Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
    • Shakespeare's Eager Adonis
  • Further Reading
• Venus Reconsidered: The Goddess of Love in Venus and Adonis
• Death by Rhetorical Trope: Poetry Metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets
• Venus and Adonis (Vol. 33)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • The Contrarieties of Venus and Adonis
    • Mother Venus: Temptation in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
    • Venus and Adonis: Some Traditional Contexts
  • Literary Influences
    • Venus and Adonis: Shakespeare's Critique of Spenser
    • The Coming of Age of Shakespeare's Adonis
    • The Comedy of Love: The Medieval Venus and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
  • Language And Imagery
    • Venus and Adonis: The Triumph of Rhetoric
    • Till Forging Nature Be Condemned of Treason: Representational Strife in Venus and Adonis
    • Love, Death, and the Hunt in Venus and Adonis
    • Death by Rhetorical Trope: Poetry Metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets
  • Further Reading
• The Ending of Venus and Adonis
• Venus and Adonis (Vol. 51)
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • The Birth of the Bard: 'venus and Adonis' and Poetic Apotheosis
  • The Rhetoric Of Desire
    • Towards a Reconsideration of Shakespeare's Adonis: Rhetoric, Narcissus, and the Male Gaze
    • Troping Desire in Shakespeare's 'venus and Adonis'
    • 'CLo, in This Hollow Cradle Take Thy Rest': Sexual Conflict and Resolution in 'venus and Adonis'
    • Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis: A Lacanian Tragicomedy of Desire
  • Themes
    • Venus and Adonis: Can We Forgive Them?
    • Thematics of Value in Venus and Adonis
  • Further Reading