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CONTENTS
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| Value of his name to publishers | 186 | |
| 1599 | The Passionate Pilgrim | 188 |
| 1601 | The Phenix and the Turtle | 190 |
| XII | ||
| THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE | ||
| Shakespeare's practical temperament | 192 | |
| His father's difficulties | 193 | |
| His wife's debt | 194 | |
| 1596-9 | The coat-of-arms | 195 |
| 1597, | May 4. The purchase of New Place | 200 |
| 1598 | Fellow-townsmen appeal to Shakespeare for aid | 202 |
| Shakespeare's financial position before 1599 | 203 | |
| Shakespeare's financial position after 1599 | 207 | |
| His later income | 209 | |
| Incomes of fellow-actors | 210 | |
| 1601-1610 | Shakespeare's formation of his estate at Stratford | 211 |
| 1605 | The Stratford tithes | 212 |
| 1600-1609 | Recovery of small debts | 213 |
| XIII | ||
| MATURITY OF GENIUS | ||
| Literary work in 1599 | 214 | |
| 1599 | Much Ado about Nothing | 215 |
| 1599 | As You Like It | 216 |
| 1600 | Twelfth Night | 217 |
| 1601 | Julius Caesar | 219 |
| The strife between adult actors and boy-actors | 220 | |
| Shakespeare's references to the struggle | 223 | |
| 1601 | Ben Jonson's Poetaster | 225 |
| Shakespeare's alleged partisanship in the theatrical warfare | 227 | |
| 1602 | Hamlet | 228 |
| The problem of its publication | 230 | |
| The First Quarto, 1603 | 231 | |
| The Second Quarto, 1604 | 231 | |
| The Folio version, 1623 | 231 | |
| Popularity of Hamlet | 232 | |
| 1603 | Troilus and Cressida | 233 |
| Treatment of the theme | 235 | |
| 1603, | March 24. Queen Elizabeth's death | 238 |
| James I's patronage | 239 | |
| XIV | ||
| THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY | ||
| 1604, | Nov. Othello | 243 |
| 1604, | Dec. Measure for Measure | 245 |
| 1606 | Macbeth | 247 |
| 1607 | King Lear | 249 |
| 1608 | Timon of Athens | 251 |
| 1608 | Pericles | 252 |
| 1608 | Antony and Cleopatra | 254 |
| 1609 | Coriolanus | 255 |