SOURCE: Greenfield, Sayre N. “Allegory to the Rescue: Saving Venus and Adonis from Themselves.” In The Ends of Allegory, pp. 86-110. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.
In the following excerpt, Greenfield explores the reasons why Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Spenser's treatment of the Venus and Adonis myth in The Faerie Queen have been read allegorically, observing that the allegorization of such texts stems from a desire to moralize a text or to demonstrate the text's coherence.
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