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I. | Introductory: The Fortunes of Shakespeare | 1 |
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II. | Shakespeare’s Aunts and the Snitterfield
Property | 11 |
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III. | Shakespeare and Asbies: A New Detail in John’s
Life | 37 |
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IV. | Mary Arden’s Arms | 47 |
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V. | Stratford’s “Bookless Neighbourhood” | 55 |
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VI. | “Mr. Shaxpere, One Book,” 1595 | 61 |
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VII. | John Shakespeare, of Ingon, and Gilbert, of
St. Bridgets | 62 |
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VIII. | Henry Shakespeare’s Death | 66 |
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IX. | “Mrs. Shaxspere” in the Law Courts | 72 |
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X. | “Honorificabilitudinitatibus” in Warwickshire:
Pillerton Registers | 74 |
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XI. | Shakespeare and the Welcombe Enclosures:
A New Detail in His Life | 81 |
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XII. | Other William Shakespeares | 91 |
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XIII. | The True Story of the Stratford Bust | 104 |
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XIV. | Sixteenth Century Locks and Weirs on the
Thames | 123 |
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XV. | The Friends in Shakespeare’s Sonnets | 135 |
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XVI. | William Hunnis, Gentleman of the Chapel
Royal | 161 |
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XVII. | Burbage’s “Theatre” | 176 |
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XVIII. | The Transportation of Burbage’s “Theatre” | 193 |
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XIX. | Early Piccadilly | 205 |
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XX. | Literary Expenses in St. Margaret’s, Westminster,
1530-1610 | 215 |
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XXI. | Old Workings at Tintern Abbey | 225 |
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XXII. | “Mr. Shakspeare about my Lorde’s Impreso” | 229 |
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XXIII. | “The Queen’s Players” in 1536 | 235 |
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XXIV. | Mary’s Chapel Royal and Her Coronation
Play | 238 |
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XXV. | Sir Andrew Dudley and Lady Margaret
Clifford, 1553 | 247 |
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XXVI. | Jane, the Queen’s Fool | 258 |
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XXVII. | Elizabeth’s Fools and Dwarfs | 269 |
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XXVIII. | The Roll of Coventry: The Arrest of Prince
Henry | 275 |
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XXIX. | The Stratford Poet | 285 |
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XXX. | Sixteenth Century Women Students | 295 |
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Notes Terminal: |
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To Art. III | 331 |
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Art. VII | 332 |
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Art. XI (1) | 336 |
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Art. XI (2) | 343 |
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Art. XIII | 346 |
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Index | 355 |