Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be published by the same quill that gave the world Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and the rest of the canon.
William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616) is widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time in the English language, and the impact of his work is without parallel. Best known for his plays, which have been translated into every major living language, his sonnets and narrative poems are also widely studied. Venus and Adonis (1593) is thought to be his first publication.
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'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it.' (Harold Bloom)
