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CONTENTS
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| III | ||
| THE YOUTHFUL CAREER OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Shakespeare and Southampton | 390 | |
| Southampton's parentage | 390 | |
| 1573 | Oct. 6. Southampton's birth | 391 |
| His education | 391 | |
| Recognition of Southampton's beauty in youth | 393 | |
| His reluctance to marry | 394 | |
| Intrigue with Elizabeth Vernon | 395 | |
| 1598 | Southampton's marriage | 395 |
| 1601-3 | Southampton's imprisonment | 396 |
| Later career | 396 | |
| 1624, | Nov. 10. His death | 397 |
| IV | ||
| THE EARL, OF SOUTHAMPTON AS A LITERARY PATRON | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Southampton's collection of books | ||
| References in his letters to poems and plays | 398 | |
| His love of the theatre | 399 | |
| Poetic adulation | 400 | |
| 1593 | Barnabe Barnes's sonnet | 400 |
| Tom Nash's addresses | 401 | |
| 1595 | Gervase Markham's sonnet | 403 |
| 1598 | Florio's address | 403 |
| The congratulations of the poets in 1603 | 404 | |
| Elegies on Southampton | 405 | |
| V | ||
| THE TRUE HISTORY OF THOMAS THORPE AND 'MR. W. H.' | ||
| PAGE | ||
| The publication of the 'Sonnets' in 1609 | 406 | |
| The text of the dedication | 407 | |
| Publishers' dedications | 408 | |
| Thorpe's early life | 409 | |
| His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe's Lucan | 409 | |
| His dedicatory address to Edward Blount in 1600 | 410 | |
| Character of his business | 411 | |
| Shakespeare's sufferings at publishers' hands | 412 | |
| The use of initials in dedications of Elizabethan and Jacobean
books |
413 | |
| Frequency of wishes for 'happiness' and 'eternity' in dedicatory
greetings |
414 | |
| Five dedications by Thorpe | 415 | |
| 'W. H.' signs dedication of Southwell's 'Poems' | 416 | |
| 'W. H.' and Mr. William Hall | 418 | |
| The 'onlie begetter' means 'only procurer' | 419 | |