CR Episode 116: Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis, by Titian
Venus and Adonis, by Titian

Download Link: Released on 14 February 2022

For St. Valentine’s Day, the panel reads what is likely to have been Shakespeare’s first officially published work: his genre-defying Tragi-Comi-Ovidian poem “Venus and Adonis”, dedicated to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton.