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His poems were never included in his collected works until the eighteenth century.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, stage plays were not generally taken seriously as literature and not considered worthy of being collected into folios, so the plays printed while he was alive were printed as quartos.

The folio format was reserved for expensive, prestigious volumes. (The disputed miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim was only printed in octavo: twice in 1599, with another in 1612, all by William Jaggard.) Folios John Benson published a collected edition of Shakespeare's Poems in 1640 the poems were not added to collections of the plays until the 18th century. " Richard Field, Shakespeare's first publisher and printer, was a Stratford man, probably a friend of Shakespeare, and the two produced an excellent text." Shakespeare may have had direct involvement in the publication of the two poems, as Ben Jonson exercised in reference to the publication of his works, but as Shakespeare clearly did not do in connection with his plays. The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint, Q-1609.ĭiffering from the quartos of the plays, the first editions of Shakespeare's narrative poems are extremely well printed.The Phoenix and the Turtle, Q1-1601, Q2-1611 (in Robert Chester's Love's Martyr).The Rape of Lucrece, Q-1594 (with later editions in octavo).Venus and Adonis, Q1-1593, Q2-1594 (with later editions in octavo).

Shakespeare's poems were also printed in quarto or octavo form: Popular plays like 1 Henry IV and Pericles were reprinted in their quarto editions even after the First Folio appeared, sometimes more than once. Pollard and other scholars associated with the New Bibliography. Six of the preceding were classified as " bad quartos" by Alfred W. In chronological order, these publications were: All of these were quarto editions, with two exceptions: The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, the first edition of Henry VI, Part 3, was printed in octavo form in 1595, as was the 1611 edition of The most lamentable tragedy of Titus Andronicus. Pericles (1609) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) also appeared separately before their inclusions in folio collections (the Shakespeare Third Folio and the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio, respectively). Main article: List of Shakespeare plays in quartoĮighteen of the 36 plays in the First Folio were printed in separate and individual editions prior to 1623.