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... Adonis In spite of its relatively low status in the twentieth century , Shake- speare's Venus and Adonis was immensely popular in its time . In the forty - four years between 1593 and 1637 it went into no less than twelve editions ...
... Adonis In spite of its relatively low status in the twentieth century , Shake- speare's Venus and Adonis was immensely popular in its time . In the forty - four years between 1593 and 1637 it went into no less than twelve editions ...
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... Adonis ' eye actually acquires a dynamic , aggres- sive force which repels Venus ' enticing eye - beams . But on a closer inspection , we realize that this is not the case . Adonis either winks when his eyes meet hers ( 90 ) ; turns his ...
... Adonis ' eye actually acquires a dynamic , aggres- sive force which repels Venus ' enticing eye - beams . But on a closer inspection , we realize that this is not the case . Adonis either winks when his eyes meet hers ( 90 ) ; turns his ...
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... Adonis is the absence of a corresponding gaze from the young man : he knows that a single glance will spell his doom . But if Adonis is thus incapable of actively seeing Venus with- out succumbing to lust , since the power of his gaze ...
... Adonis is the absence of a corresponding gaze from the young man : he knows that a single glance will spell his doom . But if Adonis is thus incapable of actively seeing Venus with- out succumbing to lust , since the power of his gaze ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
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