SOURCE: Bate, Jonathan. “Sexual Perversity in Venus and Adonis.” Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993): 80-92.
In the following essay, Bate examines Venus and Adonis as an example of “Elizabethan Ovidianism,” in that its treatment of the myth is not intended as a moralization, but as a study of the psychological exploration of love and desire.
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