Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones (ed.), H.R. Woudhuysen (ed.). Shakespeare's Poems. New York, NY: Arden Shakespeare, 2007.
  • Philip C. Kolin (Ed.). Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Belsey, Catherine. “Love as Trompe-l’oeil: Taxonomies of Desire in Venus and Adonis.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 3, 1995, pp. 257–76.

  • Bate, Jonathan. “Sexual Perversity in ‘Venus and Adonis.’” The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 23, 1993, pp. 80–92.
  • Hamilton, A. C. “Venus and Adonis.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 1, no. 1, 1961, pp. 1–15.
  • Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. "Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems." Folger Shakespeare Library. 2004. 31 January 2022. <https://www.folger.edu/venus-and-adonis>.