Moreover, all three main parties have embraced the interventionist sector strategies championed by Michael Heseltine on the right and Lord Adonis on the left.
Adonis, who is known from Greek mythology, was associated with the annual cycle of nature and shared characteristics with Egypt's Osiris and Tammuz from Babylonian and Assyrian mythology.
In this vein were several poems in the genre of short mythological narrative, among which Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Marlowe's Hero and Leander are good examples.
He was a strong and gifted athlete, charming, smart, and immensely good-looking, handsome almost to a fault, in the description of William H. Cropper, an Adonis in the words of another admirer.
In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published his two long poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, both of which were dedicated to his patron, the Earl of Southampton.