Venus and Adonis Home Page

This is the Home Page for Venus and Adonis. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Venus and Adonis (Modern)
    
  • Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1592-3)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Venus and Adonis

• Venus and Adonis, Quarto 1 (1593)
  Unknown copy from McPherson Library, University of Victoria

List of performances related to Venus and Adonis

• Venus and Adonis (2003, Shakespeare Orange County, USA)
• Venus und Adonis (2004, Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss, Germany)
• Venus and Adonis (2008, The Bell Shakespeare Company, Australia)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
  Kuchar, Gary. "Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999): 4.1-24. Kuchar explores different thematic and stylistic approaches to Venus and Adonis: