Here are some helpful resources to enhance your experience of “Venus and Adonis”:
- The Folger Shakespeare Library offers a good, succinct written introduction to “Venus and Adonis,” which also discusses Shakespeare’s source.
- Similarly, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has a wonderful little article about “Venus and Adonis” along with images of the first printed evidence of the poem.
- The Kennedy Center offers a brief video introduction to “Venus and Adonis.”
- Here’s a modern dramatic take on “Venus and Adonis.”