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Venus and Adonis

Synopsis
Video podcast. Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Venus and Adonis. In 1592-93, with London playhouses closed because of plague, Shakespeare wrote his most technically perfect work. Venus and Adonis (1593) is a highly original ‘take’ on the ancient Greek myth of the doomed Adonis - presented here as a pubertal boy incapable of responding to the goddess’s amorous advances. It was a great success with Elizabethan readers.
Series
The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Video
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Recording date
20 May 2016
Duration
37 mins

Credits

Contributor
Katherine Duncan-Jones

Additional Details

Production type
Documentary/Educational/News
Subjects
English language and literature
Keywords
poetry; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
Accessed 2/2017.

Online Availability

Online URL
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/venus-and-adonis

Production Company

Name

University of Oxford

Distributor

Name

University of Oxford Podcasts

Web
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