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CR Episode 116: Venus and Adonis

CR Episode 116: Venus and Adonis

Critical Readings · Critical Readings

February 14, 20221h 41m

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Show Notes

For St. Valentine's Day, the panel reads what is likely to have been Shakespeare's first officially published work: his genre-defying Tragi-Comi-Ovidian poem "Venus and Adonis", dedicated to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton.