| Item Description: | An attempt to justify the theory that Shakespeare submitted his "Venus and Adonis" to the judgment of a patron or literary friend (or possibly a coterie of literary friends) who interpolated a number of stanzas, and that Shakespeare, probably for fear of offending his patron or friend, accepted these interpolations and consented to the publication of the "improved" poem as his own work. In chapters III and IV the text of the poem is printed entire; in chapter V will be found the same text with the passages which in the writer's opinion come under the suspicion of being "interpolations" deleted. cf. Introductory. |
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