Title: Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1592-3)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Hardy M. Cook

Coordinating Editor: Michael Best

Textual Editor: Eric Rasmussen

Research Assistant: Beth Norris

ISBN: 978-1-55058-411-0

Editorial principles and publishing history: The transcripts presented here follow the original as exactly as an electronic version permits; spelling follows the original, with no attempt to correct errors; word spacing is normalized; and modern forms are substituted for letters and ligatures that have no modern equivalent in current browsers (for example, the long 's').

This publication has been fully peer reviewed.