Author’s note
Introduction
1 The great Globe
2 Starting out
3 Stratford-upon-Avon
4 Shakespeare himself
5 An interview with Robert Greene
6 Acting Shakespeare
7 Directing Shakespeare
8 An interview with Ben Jonson
9 The Histories
10 The Tragedies
11 The Comedies
12 Shakespeare’s books
13 The Romans
14 A fireside chat with John and Harry
15 The sonnets
16 Romeo and Juliet
17 Troilus and Cressida
18 Timon of Athens
19 The Romances
20 The Bell Shakespeare Company
Conclusion
Appendix A: What Shakespeare’s contemporaries said about him
Appendix B: The sequence of the plays
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