Note to The Taming of the Shrew, I.2.50: "Adonis"


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Induction, Scene 2, line 50.
Adonis: the young hunter beloved of Venus and slain by a wild boar. The story is the subject of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.



Venus and Adonis
by
Titian (circa 1554)


Source: Wikipedia: Aphrodite