In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone?s lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly descriptive Rape of Lucrece confirmed his fame as 'Sweet Master Shakespeare', Elizabethan England's most brilliant non-dramatic poet. Shorter poems in this volume testify further to Shakespeare?s versatility and to his poetic fame. Some, like the much-debated ?Phoenix and Turtle?, pose problems of meaning; others raise questions about authorship and authenticity. Detailed annotation and a full Introduction seek to resolve such difficulties while also locating Shakespeare's poems in their literary context, which includes his own career as a playwright.

List of illrstrations
General editors' preface
Preface
Introduction

Preliminaries
Literary history: sweet shakespeare
Venus and adonis and lucrece
1593-4: idle hours well spent
Political context: southampton, clapham,burghley
Protagonists: visible and audible women
Literary sources: boy and man
Social context: plague and pleasure
Afterlife of venus and adonis and lucrece
1598-9: The passionate pilgrim
"The phoenix and turtle"
1601: love's martyr
Shakespeare and the welsh
John salusbury, literary patron
1601: Salusbury's difficulties
"The best and chiefest of our moderne writers"
The phoenix riddle
Conclusion: "Tis brief, my lord"
 

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