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- VENUS AND ADONIS 75
petent editorship of Dr. Sewell. Neither Theobald, Hanmer, Dr. Johnson, Warburton, Capell, nor Steevens noticed the poems in their editions of the plays. Capell annotated in manuscript a copy of the Lintott reprint, but the revision remains unpublished in the Capell collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1774 J. Bell, a London bookseller, first included the poems in a trade reprint of the plays.¹ In 1780 Malone included the poems in his *Supplement to Johnson and Steevens’ edition of Shakespeare’s Plays of 1778*, and there first attempted a critical recension of the text. They reappeared as a matter of course in Malone’s great edition of the works of Shakespeare, in 1790. It is due to Malone’s example that *Venus and Adonis* and the rest of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic works were finally admitted to the Shakespearean canon. They fill a place in all the nineteenth-century editions of Shakespeare’s works which enjoy a standard repute.
¹ Many so-called collections of Shakespeare’s poems, which were produced by publishers in the middle of the eighteenth century under such titles as *Poems written by Shakespeare*, or *Poems on several occasions by William Shakespeare*, were merely reprints of the 1640 edition of Shakespeare’s *Poems* which contained only the *Seenets* and *Passionate Pilgrim* and omitted Shakespeare’s narrative poems.
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