SHAKESPEARE AND SEX.(Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems)(Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: BERRY, SHARALPH | Copyright information

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems. A. D. Cousins. Longman. [pound]60.00. 227 pages. ISBN 0-582-21513-7.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are discourses, sequent and complementary, on sex. Venus and Adonis is elegant pornography. As Gabriel Harvey noted, "The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis'. But, he added, Lucrece and Hamlet 'have it in them to please the wiser sort'. I suspect that A. D. Cousins goes along with this view;...

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