Preface. Introduction. Abbreviations. Chronology of Shakespeare’s life, works and sixteenth-/seventeenth-century events. VENUS AND ADONIS. Facsimile of 1593 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. RAPE OF LUCRECE. Facsimile of 1594 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM. Facsimile of 1599 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. LET THE BIRD OF LOUDEST LAY. Facsimile of 1604 title page to Diuerse Poetical Essaies. Introduction. Textual introduction. Text. SONNETS. Facsimile of 1609 title page. Introduction. Textual introduction. A LOVER’S COMPLAINT. Introduction. Textual introduction. POEMS POSTHUMOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKESPEARE. Introduction (textual information to be given in footnotes). Text of ‘Shall I die?’ An extemporary epitaph on John Combe’. ‘Another epitaph on John Combe’. ‘Upon the king’. ‘Upon a pair of gloves’. ‘An epitaph on Elias James’. ‘Verses upon the Stanley tomb at Tong (East End)’. ‘Verses upon the Stanley tomb at Tong (West End)’. ‘On Ben Jonson’. ‘Epitaph on himself’. Appendix Poems from Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the former Subiect; viz. the Turtle and Phoenix. Bibliography of references cited. Index of titles and first lines.
Biography
Cathy Shrank is Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Raphael Lyne is a Fellow of Murray Edwards College and a Reader in Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.
