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# ### III ## Overview This is a section within the chapter "[VENUS AND ADONIS](arke:01KG6S4BKQ65P7DTQM82TXFB34)" extracted from the file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)". It is part of the "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)" collection. The section discusses Shakespeare's assimilation of the Ovidian outline and Italian adaptations of the Venus and Adonis legend, and how Elizabethan poets made incidental references to the tale before Shakespeare. ## Context This section follows the "[Introduction](arke:01KG6S5MTBVWZCRS1FG6MHVZ59)" and precedes the section "[The story in England.](arke:01KG6S5NC7Z4VBN4G7GS9MWM3K)" within the "[VENUS AND ADONIS](arke:01KG6S4BKQ65P7DTQM82TXFB34)" chapter. The text was extracted by the "structure-extraction-lambda" process and manually edited by user "01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H" from the plain text file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)". ## Contents The section explores Shakespeare's use of the Venus and Adonis legend, noting that while he was the first in England to give it independent treatment, many earlier Elizabethan poets had made references to the tale. It suggests that Shakespeare elaborated on specific features of the story in emulation of these earlier poets.

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### III But it was not only the Ovidian outline and Italian adaptations that Shakespeare assimilated. None had chosen the legend for independent treatment in England before Shakespeare. But many Elizabethan poets of earlier date had made incidental reference to the tale, and had laid special stress on features of it which Shakespeare seems to have elaborated in emulation of them.

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