Venus and Adonis, a classical myth, was a common subject for art during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Some works which have been titled Venus and Adonis...
Byline: QUENTIN LETTS WHEN it comes to this year's acting awards, I hope they'll consider the two puppets which star in this astonishing dramatisation of Shakespeare's rueful epic poem about love. The show, co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, lasts for 70...
WHEN it comes to this year's acting awards, I hope they'll consider the two puppets which star in this astonishing dramatisation of Shakespeare's rueful epic poem about love. The show, co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, lasts for 70 minutes. By the...
In a way, it goes back to the spirit of the early Edgy Enthusiast columns, which were numbered riffs on cultural obsessions. Playlists, even—dare I say it? —pre-blog blogging. Not really: but …. 1 Did you know that Jorn Barger, the guy generally known...
Think of this week's column as a play list for the overeducated, the media-saturated, the culturally jaded: things you may have missed, things you ought not miss, things you still can see and hear. Things "arts journalists" have not covered. Cultural news for those people...
In the following essay, Halpern likens Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis to “a piece of soft-core pornography,” and contends that the poem is meant to produce sexual frustration in its female readers.
