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Shakespeare
A LIFE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTI0N
Cleaning one's teeth at Henley Street
What is new?
The plays
A NOTE ON CONVENTIONS USED IN THE TEXT
1
A STRATFORD YOUTH
1
BIRTH
Stratford
Master Bretchgirdle's arrival
The Chamberlain's first son
2
MOTHER, OF THE CHILD
Mary Shakespeare at Henley Street
Hic incepit pestis'
Air and music
3
JOHN SHAKESPEARES F0RTUNES
In the bailiff's family
Debts and a downfall
4
TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL
A classroom
Rhetoric at dawn
The Lord of Misrule
5
0PP0RTUNITY AND NEED
'In the Countrey'
Upon a promontory
Returning
6
LOVE AND EARLY MARRIAGE
Anne Hathaway and the Shottery fields
A licence for lovers
After Davy Jones's show
II
ACTOR AND POET OF THE LONDON STAGE
7
TO LONDON-- AND THE AMPHITHEATRE PLAYERS
Streets and conduits
Hirelings, repertory, and poets
Crab the dog
8
ATTITUDES
Marlowe, Kyd, and Shoreditch
'I am the sea': Titus Andronicus and the Shrew
The white rose of York
9
THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER
Plague and prospects
The 'waspish little worme' and 'upstart Crow'
Shagbag, The Comedy of Errors, and Love's Labour's Lost
10
A PATRON, POEMS, AND COMPANY WORK
To the 'Earle of Southampton'
The sonneteer
Politics and King Jobn
11
A SERVANT OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Sharing with the Burbages
Dreams and the doors of breath
Falstaff, Hal, and a Henriad
12
NEW PLACE AND THE COUNTRY
Gains and losses
Two murders, New Place, and Mr Quiney's little faults
'This is the Forest of Arden'
III
THE MATURITY OF GENIUS
13
SOUTH OF JULIUS CAESAR'S TOWER
Ben Jonson's thumb
Shylock, the troubled Merchant of Venice, and Francis Meres
Julius Caesar at the Globe
14
HAMLET'S QUESTIONS
Poets' wars and 'little eyases'
The Prince's world
Investments
15
THE KING'S SERVANTS
King James's arrival
Pageantry, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well
The 'plumèd troops'
16
THE TRAGIC SUBLIME
Jennet's guest and Marie's lodger
Time's perpetuity: Macbeth and King Lear
Classical roots: Egypt, Rome, and Athens
IV
THE LAST PHASE
17
TALES AND TEMPESTS
Susanna's marriage
Lands of 'painful adventure' from Pericles to The Tempest
A fire at the Globe
18
A GENTLEMAN'S CHOICES
Stratford friends and family affairs
Making a will and the struggles of the Harts
'For all time'
THE ARDEN AND SHAKESPEARE FAMILIES
DESCENDANTS OF SHAKESPEARE'S NEPHEW THOMAS HART (B. 1605) DOWN TO THE SALE OF THE BIRTHPLACE IN 1806
A NOTE ON THE SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION AND SOURCES FOR HIS LIFE
NOTES
I. Birth
2. Mother of the Child
3. John Shakespeare's Fortunes
4. To Grammar School
5. Opportunity and Need
6. Love and Early Marriage
7. To London -- and the Amphitheatre Players
8. Attitudes
9. The City in September
10. A Patron, Poems, and Company Work
11. A Servant of the Lord Chamberlain
12. New Place and the Country
13. South of Julius Caesar's Tower
14. Hamlet's Questions
15. The King's Servants
16 The Tragic Sublime
17. Tales and Tempests
18. A Gentleman's Choices
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