Collection · c. 1599

Shakespeare’s Passionate Pilgrim

A 1599 cash-in anthology that publisher William Jaggard sold under Shakespeare’s name — only a handful of its twenty poems are actually his (early versions of two sonnets and three lyrics from Love’s Labour’s Lost); the rest belong to Marlowe, Raleigh, Barnfield, and anonymous hands.

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By the Seven Ages editors2 min read

It earns its place in the canon as a curiosity: a snapshot of Shakespeare’s brand being valuable enough to counterfeit in his own lifetime. Read it in ten minutes for the flavor of Elizabethan literary piracy.

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