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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Note on Conventions Used in the Text | |
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| A Stratford Youth | |
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| Birth | |
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| Stratford | |
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| Master Bretchgirdle's arrival | |
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| The chamberlain's first son | |
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| Mother of the Child | |
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| Mary Shakespeare at Henley Street | |
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| 'Hic incepit pestis' | |
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| Air and music | |
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| John Shakespeare's Fortunes | |
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| In the bailiff's family | |
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| Debts and a downfall | |
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| To Grammar School | |
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| A classroom | |
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| Rhetoric at dawn | |
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| The Lord of Misrule | |
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| Opportunity and Need | |
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| 'In the Countrey' | |
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| Upon a promontory | |
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| Returning | |
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| Love and Early Marriage | |
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| Anne Hathaway and the Shottery fields | |
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| A licence for lovers | |
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| After Davy Jones's show | |
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| Actor and Poet of the London Stage | |
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| To London--and the Amphitheatre Players | |
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| Streets and conduits | |
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| Hirelings, repertory, and poets | |
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| Crab the dog | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Marlowe, Kyd, and Shoreditch | |
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| 'I am the sea': Titus Andronicus and the Shrew | |
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| The white rose of York | |
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| The City in September | |
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| Plague and prospects | |
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| The 'waspish little worme' and 'upstart Crow' | |
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| Shagbag, The Comedy of Errors, and Love's Labour's Lost | |
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| A Patron, Poems, and Company Work | |
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| To the 'Earle of Southampton' | |
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| The sonneteer | |
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| Politics and King John | |
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| A Servant of the Lord Chamberlain | |
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| Sharing with the Burbages | |
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| Dreams and the doors of breath | |
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| Falstaff, Hal, and a Henriad | |
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| New Place and the Country | |
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| Gains and losses | |
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| Two murders, New Place, and M[superscript r] Quiney's little faults | |
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| 'This is the Forest of Arden' | |
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| The Maturity of Genius | |
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| South of Julius Caesar's Tower | |
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| Ben Jonson's thumb | |
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| Shylock, the troubled Merchant of Venice, and Francis Meres | |
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| Julius Caesar at the Globe | |
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| Hamlet's Questions | |
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| Poets' wars and 'little eyases' | |
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| The Prince's world | |
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| Investments | |
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| The King's Servants | |
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| King James's arrival | |
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| Pageantry, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well | |
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| The 'plumed troops' | |
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| The Tragic Sublime | |
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| Jennet's guest and Marie's lodger | |
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| Time's perpetuity: Macbeth and King Lear | |
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| Classical roots: Egypt, Rome, and Athens | |
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| The Last Phase | |
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| Tales and Tempests | |
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| Susanna's marriage | |
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| Lands of 'painful adventure' from Pericles to The Tempest | |
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| A fire at the Globe | |
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| A Gentleman's Choices | |
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| Stratford friends and family affairs | |
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| Making a will and the struggles of the Harts | |
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| 'For all time' | |
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| The Arden and Shakespeare Families | |
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| Descendants of Shakespeare's Nephew Thomas Hart (b. 1605) Down to the Sale of the Birthplace in 1806 | |
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| A Note on the Shakespeare Biographical Tradition and Sources for his Life | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |