A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles. Sir Sidney Lee

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles - Sir Sidney Lee


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The Folio Version.

       Popularity of ‘Hamlet.’

       ‘Troilus and Cressida.’

       Treatment of the theme.

       Queen Elizabeth’s death, March 26, 1603.

       James I’s patronage.

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       ‘Othello’ and ‘Measure for Measure.’

       ‘Macbeth.’

       ‘King Lear.’

       ‘Timon of Athens.’

       ‘Pericles.’

       ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’

       ‘Coriolanus.’

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       The latest plays.

       ‘Cymbeline.’

       ‘A Winter’s Tale.’

       ‘Tempest.’

       Fanciful interpretations of ‘The Tempest.’

       Unfinished plays. The lost play of ‘Cardenio.’

       ‘Two Noble Kinsmen.’

       ‘Henry VIII.’

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       Plays at Court in 1613. Actor-friends.

       Final settlement at Stratford.

       Domestic affairs.

       Purchase of a house in Blackfriars.

       Attempt to enclose the Stratford common fields.

       Death. Burial.

       The will. Bequest to his wife.

       His heiress. Legacies to friends.

       The tomb.

       Personal character.

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       The survivors. Mistress Judith Quiney.

       Mistress Susannah Hall.

       The last descendant.

       Shakespeare’s brothers.

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       Spelling of the poet’s surname. Autograph signatures.

       Shakespeare’s portraits. The Stratford bust. The ‘Stratford’ portrait.

       Droeshout’s engraving.

       The ‘Droeshout’ painting.

       Later portraits.

       The ‘Chandos’ portrait.

       The ‘Jansen’ portrait.

       The ‘Felton’ portrait.

       The ‘Soest’ portrait.

       Miniatures.

       The Garrick Club bust.

       Alleged death-mask.

       Memorials in sculpture.

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       Quartos of the poems in the poet’s lifetime.

       Posthumous quartos of the poems.

      


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