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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
III
THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD
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Early married life 26
Poaching in Charlecote 28
Unwarranted doubts of the tradition 29
Justice Shallow 30
1585 The flight from Stratford 30
IV
ON THE LONDON STAGE
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1586 The journey to London 32
Richard Field, Shakespeare's townsman 33
Theatrical employment 33
A playhouse servitor 35
The acting companies 35
The Lord Chamberlain's company 36
Shakespeare a member of the Lord Chamberlain's company 37
The London theatres 37
Place of residence in London 39
Actors' provincial tours 40
Shakespeare's alleged travels 41
In Scotland 42
In Italy 43
Shakespeare's rôles 44
His alleged scorn of an actor's calling 45
V
EARLY DRAMATIC WORK
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The period of Shakepeare's dramatic work, 1591-1611. 47
His borrowed plots 48
The revision of plays 48
Chronology of the plays 49
Metrical tests 50
1591 Love's Labour's Lost 51
1591 Two Gentlemen of Verona 54
1592 Comedy of Errors 55
1592 Romeo and Juliet 56
1592, March. Henry VI 58
1592, Sept. Greene's attack on Shakespeare 59
Chettle's apology 60
Divided authorship of Henry VI 61
Shakespeare's coadjutors 62
Shakespeare's assimilative power 63
Lyly's influence in comedy 64
Marlowe's influence in tragedy 65
1593 Richard III 65
1593 Richard II 67
Shakespeare's acknowledgments to Marlowe 67
1593 Titus Andronicus 68
1594, August. The Merchant of Venice 70
Shylock and Roderigo Lopez 71
1594 King John 73
1594, Dec. 28. Comedy of Errors in Gray's Inn Hall 74
Early plays doubtfully assigned to Shakepeare 75
Arden of Feversham (1592) 75
Edward III 75
Mucedorus 76
Faire Em (1592) 77
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