William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . gh much research hasbeen devoted to this object and many metaphysical,political, ecclesiastical, and historical interpretationshave been suggested, The Phcsnix and the Turtleremains an unsolved enigma. 226 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In 1599 William Jaggard, who, like Thorpe, laidhands upon any unpublished writing which hadsecured popularity and promised success to aventuresome publisher, issued a small anthology ofcontemporary verse under the title of The Pas-sionate W. Shake-speare. Thefirst two selec-tions were Son-nets by Shake-speare hith
William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . gh much research hasbeen devoted to this object and many metaphysical,political, ecclesiastical, and historical interpretationshave been suggested, The Phcsnix and the Turtleremains an unsolved enigma. 226 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In 1599 William Jaggard, who, like Thorpe, laidhands upon any unpublished writing which hadsecured popularity and promised success to aventuresome publisher, issued a small anthology ofcontemporary verse under the title of The Pas-sionate W. Shake-speare. Thefirst two selec-tions were Son-nets by Shake-speare hithertounpublished,and there werethree poemstaken from Loves La-bours Lost,which appearedin 1591. Thecollection wasre p ri n ted in1612 with theaddition of twopoems by Thomas Heywood. Shakespeare appearsto have borne the affront in silence, but Heywoodprotested, in a dedicatory epistle wdiich appeared inthat year, against the injury done him, and declaredthat Shakespeare was much offended with that (altogether unknow^n to him) presumed. ^^ THE SONNETS 227 to make so bold with his name. This protest wasnot without effect, for a new title-page was issuedfrom which Shakespeares name was omitted. Ofthe twenty-one pieces which make up The Pas-sionate Pilgrim, only five can be ascribed toShakespeare. The collection was a miscellany, a rag-pickers bag of stolen goods, put togetherwithout authority from the poets whose work wasstolen, and the use of Shakespeares name is oneevidence of its weight with readers. CHAPTER X THE HISTORICAL PLAYS The period of Shakespeares apprenticeshipended about 1596; the succeeding four or fiveyears show him in full possession of his art and hismaterial, though the deeper phases of experiencewere still before him and the full maturity of hisgenius was to be coincident with the searching ofhis spirit in the period of the Tragedies. The lasthalf-decade of the sixteenth century were goldenyears in the life of the rising dramatist. He
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