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Venus and Adonis: Critical Essay by Robert P. Merrix

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William Shakespeare
About 26 pages (7,683 words)
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SOURCE: "'CLo, in This Hollow Cradle Take Thy Rest': Sexual Conflict and Resolution in 'venus and Adonis,'" in Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays, edited by Philip C. Kolin, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997, pp. 341-357.

In the following essay, Merrix explores the conflict between domestic sexuality and the desire for what is exotic and unknown in Venus and Adonis.

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