| PAGE | |
| Shakespeare at Charlecote Park | 1 |
| Shakespeare at “Bank-side” | 7 |
| The Epitaph of Sir Hugh Evans | 13 |
| Bully Bottom’s Babes | 22 |
| Shakespeare in China | 28 |
| Solomon’s Ape | 39 |
| The Castle Builders of Padua | 46 |
| The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais | 50 |
| The Wine Cellar: A “Morality” | 58 |
| Recollections of Guy Fawkes | 67 |
| Elizabeth and Victoria | 75 |
| The Little Great and the Great Little | 90 |
| The Manager’s Pig | 95 |
| Some Account of a Stage Devil | 103 |
| Fireside Saints | 121 |
| Cat-and-Fiddle Moralities: The Tale of a Tiger | 127 |
| A Gossip at Reculvers | 140 |
| The Two Windows | 150 |
| The Order of Poverty | 154 |
| The Old Man at the Gate | 166 |
| The Folly of the Sword | 171 |
| The Greenwich Pensioner | 181 |
| The Drill Sergeant | 189 |
| The Handbook of Swindling | 199 |