Who published The Passionate Pilgrim and when was it first printed?
William Jaggard published The Passionate Pilgrim, probably in 1599 or possibly 1598. The printer, probably Thomas Judson, had set up his shop only after September 1598, and the volume was not entered in the Stationers' Register, leaving the exact date uncertain.
How many poems in The Passionate Pilgrim were actually written by Shakespeare?
Five of the twenty-one poems in The Passionate Pilgrim are considered genuinely Shakespearean. Two are sonnets that received their first publication in the anthology, and three are extracts from the play Love's Labour's Lost.
Which Shakespeare sonnets first appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim?
"When my love swears that she is made of truth" and "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair" both received their first known publication in The Passionate Pilgrim. They were later published as Sonnets 138 and 144 in Shakespeare's 1609 Sonnets collection.
Who were the other poets whose work appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim?
Richard Barnfield, Bartholomew Griffin, Christopher Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh all had poems collected in The Passionate Pilgrim. Thomas Heywood's verse was added without credit to the 1612 edition. Several other poems in the anthology remain unattributed.
Why was Shakespeare's name removed from The Passionate Pilgrim's 1612 edition?
Thomas Heywood protested that Jaggard had taken poems from his Troia Britannica without credit, calling it a "manifest injury." Heywood also reported that Shakespeare was "much offended" with Jaggard for making "so bold with his name." Jaggard then revised the title page of the third edition to remove Shakespeare's name.
Where are surviving copies of The Passionate Pilgrim held today?
A fragmentary composite copy of the first edition is held at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Two complete copies of the second edition survive, one in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, and one at the Huntington Library. Of the third edition, one copy is at the Folger Library and one is at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.