Editing Shakespeare apocrypha (section)

== Background ==
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In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in [[Quarto (text)|quarto]], a small, cheap format. Then, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors [[John Heminges]] and [[Henry Condell]] compiled a [[Folio (printing)|folio]] collection of his complete plays, now known as the [[First Folio]]. Heminges and Condell were in a position to do this because they, like Shakespeare, worked for the [[King's Men (playing company)|King's Men]], the London [[playing company]] that produced all of Shakespeare's plays.

In addition to plays, poems were published under Shakespeare's name. The collection published as ''[[The Passionate Pilgrim]]'' contains genuine poems by Shakespeare along with poems known to have been written by other authors, along with some of unknown authorship. Unattributed poems have also been assigned by some scholars to Shakespeare at various times. See below.

The apocrypha can be categorized under the following headings.