Name: Venus and Adonis
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Author: William Shakespeare

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FL-0296E.V.

SHAKESPEARE, William

Venus and Adonis

1593

The poem that made Shakespeare famous and that almost nobody reads now — his first published book, 1593, and the bestseller of his lifetime. The premise is one joke held…

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William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Overview This is the poem that made Shakespeare famous, and almost nobody reads it now. Venus and Adonis is 1,194 lines, published in 1593, and it was the most reprinted of his works in his own lifetime — about ten editions by 1616, more than any single play, a figure checked against the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust rather than recalled. It was also his first published book. The plague had shut the London theatres, an actor-playwright with no stage needed a patron, and he produced this…

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Accession:FL-0296

Published:1593

Language:en

Shelved under:Poetry and Myth

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