The passionate pilgrim / (by Shakspere, Marlowe, Barnfield, Griffin, and other writers unknown) ; the first quarto, 1599, a facsimile in photo-lithography by William Griggs ... with an introduction by Edward Dowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Spurious and doubtful works.

Contributor:

Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Selections. 1880 ; Works. no. 10.

Shakspere-quarto facsimiles ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Passionate pilgrim--Facsimiles.

Shakespeare, William.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern.

Physical Description:

xx pages, 30 leaves : facsimile ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : W. Griggs, [1883]

Notes:

Facsimile on one side of leaf, except last three leaves.

Signatures of original: A-Da (first and last leaf blank)

Reproduction of original t.-p.: The Passionate Pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare. At London Printed for W. Iaggard, and are to be sold by W. Leake, at the Grey-hound in Paules Churchyard. 1599.

Contains 20 pieces, the last six preceded by a second t.-p.: Sonnets to sundry notes of Musicke. At London Printed for W. Iaggard [etc.] 1599.

"Of the twenty pieces only five are certainly by Shakspere" (1, 2, 3, 5, and 16) These are Sonnets 138 and 144, and three songs or sonnets from "Love's labour's lost". Four had appeared under the names of Barnfield (8 and 20), Griffin (11), and Marlowe (19). Eleven remain of unknown authorship, eight of which are found only in "The Passionate Pilgrim". cf. Introd., p.vi.

OCLC:

4751023