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
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
University of Oxford Podcasts
- Web
- http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ External site opens in new window
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Venus and Adonis". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av77585 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)