Shakespeare, in Fact by Matus, Irvin Leigh -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Dedication Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction to the Dover Edition Author’s Preface 1. In the Court of Public Opinion

Is It Important? Allusion and Illusion This Book and Its Sources

2. Shakespeare of Stratford, His Record and Remains

Shakespeare—or “Shakspere”? Hyphenated Shakespeare Literacy and the Shakespeares The Stratford Grammar School Shakespeare: The Heel, and His “Achilles’ Heel” Shakespeare’s Autograph The Survival of Manuscripts

3. On the Paper Trail of the Player and the Playwright

The Records of the Player The Lord Chamberlain’s Man The King’s Man Early Notices of the Playwright The “Missing” Manuscripts Author’s Rights and “True Originall Copies” Believe as You List Afterwords: “Shakespeare ye Player by Garter” “A Bend between Two Cotizes”

4. The Publication of Shakespeare’s Plays

The Worshipful Company of Stationers The Acting Companies and Publication Give Them No Quarto The Publication History of the Chamberlain’s Men’s Plays From Sir George Buck to the First Folio Pembroke and the 1619 Quartos Heminges and Condell versus the Noble Brethren The Publication History of the King’s Men

5. Questions about the Writing of the Plays

Shakespeare, the Sole Begetter? The Unkindest Cuts “Worth the Audience of Kings” Afterwords: “Hence Broker-Lackey”

6. The Dating of Shakespeare’s Plays

The Problem of Cairncross A Tale of Two—or Three—Lears The Winter’s Tale and Tales of The Tempest Henry VIII and the Problem of John Fletcher Questions for a Chronology

7. Shakespeare’s Reputation in the Seventeenth Century

The Reputation of the Theater in Shakespeare’s Day The Reputation of Shakespeare in His Own Day Shakespeare in the Restoration Shakespeare Reformed In Praise of Shakespeare

8. The Bard before Bardolatry

The Editions of Rowe and Pope Theobald versus Pope—and Vice Versa Johnson, Garrick, and Stratford I: c 1745 Johnson, Garrick, and Stratford II: 1756 Johnson, Garrick, and Stratford III: c 1765 The Scholars’ Shakespeare versus the Actors’ Shakespeare Afterwords: A Painting of the Shakespeare Monument before Its Restoration?

9. The Claim for the Earl of Oxford

Of Pen Names and the Cob of Avon Oxford as a Patron of Players The Lord Great Chamberlain’s Men? The Case of the Missing 9th Earl The Other Lord Chamberlain The Counterfeit Presentment The Courtier The Soldier The Scholar The Glass of Fashion A Resident Dramatist in Queen Elizabeth’s Court? The Thousand-Pound Annuity In Regard to the Case for Oxford

10. Closing Arguments

Stratford in Shakespeare’s Day Shakespeare’s Rarified Knowledge Shakespeare’s Classical Knowledge Getting the Elizabethan Age Right The Theater and Audiences of Shakespeare’s Time Getting Shakespeare Right That New Old-Time Orthodoxy

Notes Bibliography Index Back Cover