Short answers, pulled from the story.
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare was first published in the year 1593. This publication occurred during a time when the bubonic plague forced all public theaters to close their doors for months.
The complete poem Venus and Adonis contains exactly 1,194 lines of text organized into 199 stanzas. Each stanza consists of six lines written in iambic pentameter with an ABABCC rhyme scheme.
William Shakespeare drew heavily from Ovid's Metamorphoses particularly book ten where the original tale appears much more briefly. Other classical sources influenced the work including tales of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus Narcissus and Pygmalion from Ovid's larger collection.
The title page of Venus and Adonis bore a dedication to Henry Wriothesley the 3rd Earl of Southampton calling the work the first heir of my invention. Richard Field printed this quarto pamphlet with great care as he was a printer from Stratford-upon-Avon like Shakespeare himself.
Signum Records released the song cycle Venus & Adonis by Rodrigo Ruiz on their eponymous album dated the 27th of September 2024. This work became the first song cycle ever written by a Mexican composer set entirely to Shakespeare's texts.