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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       Distribution of the name.

       The poet’s ancestry.

       The poet’s father.

       His settlement at Stratford.

       The poet’s mother.

       The poet’s birth and baptism.

       Alleged birthplace.

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       The father in municipal office.

       Brothers and sisters.

       The father’s financial difficulties.

       Education.

       The poet’s classical equipment.

       Shakespeare and the Bible.

       Withdrawal from school.

       The poet’s marriage.

       Richard Hathaway of Shottery. Anne Hathaway.

       Anne Hathaway’s cottage.

       The bond against impediments.

       Birth of a daughter.

       Formal betrothal probably dispensed with.

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       Poaching at Charlecote.

       Unwarranted doubts of the tradition.

       Justice Shallow

       The flight from Stratford.

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       The journey to London.

       Richard Field, his townsman.

       Theatrical employment.

       A playhouse servitor.

       The acting companies.

       The Lord Chamberlain’s company.

       A member of the Lord Chamberlain’s.

       The London theatres.

       Place of residence in London.

       Shakespeare’s alleged travels. In Scotland.

       In Italy.

       Shakespeare’s rôles.

       Alleged scorn of an actor’s calling.

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       Dramatic work.

       His borrowed plots.

       The revision of plays.

       Chronology of the plays. Metrical tests.

       ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost.’

       ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona.’

       ‘Comedy of Errors.’

       ‘Romeo and Juliet.’

       ‘Henry VI.’

       Greene’s attack. Chettle’s apology.