The Equinoctial Boar: Venus and Adonis in Spenser’s Garden, Shakespeare’s Epyllion, and Richard III’s England
The Equinoctial Boar: Venus and Adonis in Spenser’s Garden, Shakespeare’s Epyllion, and Richard III’s England
This chapter addresses two suggestions for further thought on Faerie Queene and Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's Richard III and the boar of winter. It reviews the primary mythographical tradition on the story's figures, including the boar that wounded Adonis on what some called his thigh and others his genitalia. The chapter then studies the suggestion that what mythographers have in mind is not only the coming of winter, but also what is happening in the circling zodiac and along the horizon.
Keywords: boar of winter, Richard III, mythographical tradition, coming of winter, zodiac
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