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Tag: William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis, by Titian

CR Episode 116: Venus and Adonis

14 February 2022 Critical Readings
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.
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CR Episode 100: Shakespeare’s Sonnets

25 October 2021 Critical Readings
The panel reads a selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare, and considers their Symposium-like comparisons and contrasts of the different kinds and representations of love, in terms ranging from eloquent to earthy, and from concrete to abstract.

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