Article: Allegorical impulses and critical ends: Shakespeare's and Spenser's Venus and Adonis. (William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser)

Given pronouncements that all language is metaphorical and that all literary works or interpretations are allegorical,(2) it is not easy to define what makes the metaphorical structure of "other-speaking" allegory distinctly "other." The distinction between allegorical and unallegorical form holds, in fact, more easily for interpretations than for literary texts themselves. The interpretive histories of the two works considered here, Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Book Three of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, demonstrate how these poems, especially Shakespeare's, move in and out of "allegory." Individual interpretations, howeer, while always "other" than the literary ...

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