Venus und Adonis is a one-act opera by Hans Werner Henze with a German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after the poem by William Shakespeare. The work...
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Venus and Adonis may refer to: "Venus and Adonis", a story from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) Venus and Adonis (Constable...
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theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on sexual themes, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He dedicated...
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printed signature to the dedications of the first editions of his poems Venus and Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece in 1594. It is also the spelling used...
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time the name William Shakespeare is known to have been connected with any literary work was with the publication of Venus and Adonis just a week or two...
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poem to Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, and has mistaken the grammar also, which makes it clear that Barksted is referring to Shakespeare’s "song" in...
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast...
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lost. Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries recognized him not for plays like Hamlet and Macbeth, but poems like Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. Thus, his use...
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Catherine (1995). "Love as Trompe-l'oeil: Taxonomies of Desire in Venus and Adonis". Shakespeare Quarterly. 46 (3): 257–76. doi:10.2307/2871118. JSTOR 2871118...
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Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Venus and Adonis is a classical myth during the Renaissance. Heer Ranjha is one of the...
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Cobbe portrait (category Portraits of William Shakespeare)
Earl to survive and shows him at the time that Shakespeare dedicated his long poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) to him. The...
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this time, he turns to classical antiquity to aid him in his poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Then, towards the end of 1593, with the prospect...
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connection to Hecate, see Detienne M, The Gardens of Adonis, Princeton UP, 1994, pp.83–9. "No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth: Act 2, Scene 1, Page 2". Archived from...
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of the age, such as Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. Chapman's life was troubled by debt and his inability to find...
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method of circulation for the Sonnets of William Shakespeare, who also wrote the erotic poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. The Perfumed Garden...
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mythography have revealed influence from Asia Minor and the Near East. Adonis seems to be the Greek counterpart—more clearly in cult than in myth—of a...
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English) by Edmund Spenser (1596) Venus and Adonis (1593) and Lucrece (1594) (Early Modern English) by Shakespeare The Dam San of the Ede people (now...
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(‘The Raid') (1917) Der Einsame (1918) A Portrait of Wolfgang (1921) Venus und Adonis (1924) Der Kampf des Lichts gegen die Finsternis Rückkehr des Sohnes’...
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goddess *Frīy(y)o- was at the same time sovereign, wife of the great god, and Venus (thence *Friy(y)a-dagaz "Freitag for Veneris dies). However the internal...
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Pomone (Robert Cambert). Often regarded as the first French opera. 1683 Venus and Adonis (John Blow). Often considered the first opera in English. 1701 La púrpura...
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facetiously comparing himself with Ganymede and Adonis as types of champion 'pretty boy' whom Zeus and Venus…found irresistibly attractive. Plautus. "Menaechmi...
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Sicyon. Adoneus, a rare archaism in Roman literature, a Latinised form of Adonis, used as epithet for Bacchus. Aegobolus Αἰγοβόλος ("goat-shooter") at Potniae...
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Orpheus, who sings about Hyacinthus, as well as Pygmalion, Myrrha, and Adonis. The eleventh book compares the marriage of Peleus and Thetis with the love...
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Henry Lawes's music for Milton's Comus (not to mention John Blow's Venus and Adonis), and Spanish zarzuela. At the same time, Italian and German composers...
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first musical adaption of a Shakespeare play (composed by Locke and Johnson). About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first...
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Tempo di Borea) Beethoven Fidelio Overture John Blow Venus!...Adonis!... (from Venus and Adonis Act I) Bruckner Os justi meditabitur 11 Oct 1997 Andrew...
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passions of his heart", and dropping him to travel with "Bonpland and his Adonis" [Montúfar]. Humboldt inherited a significant fortune, but the expense of...
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Fehl, the closest poetic work that matches this painting is William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (obviously, entirely unknown to Titian, as...
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entertainment music for the court and was the author of an opera, Venus and Adonis (1682), a short work that included French-influenced ballets. Of particular...
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