CONTENTS
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I.Introductory: The Fortunes of Shakespeare1
II.Shakespeare’s Aunts and the Snitterfield Property11
III.Shakespeare and Asbies: A New Detail in John’s Life37
IV.Mary Arden’s Arms47
V.Stratford’s “Bookless Neighbourhood”55
VI.“Mr. Shaxpere, One Book,” 159561
VII.John Shakespeare, of Ingon, and Gilbert, of St. Bridgets62
VIII.Henry Shakespeare’s Death66
IX.“Mrs. Shaxspere” in the Law Courts72
X.“Honorificabilitudinitatibus” in Warwickshire: Pillerton Registers74
XI.Shakespeare and the Welcombe Enclosures: A New Detail in His Life81
XII.Other William Shakespeares91
XIII.The True Story of the Stratford Bust104
XIV.Sixteenth Century Locks and Weirs on the Thames123
XV.The Friends in Shakespeare’s Sonnets135
XVI.William Hunnis, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal161
XVII.Burbage’s “Theatre”176
XVIII.The Transportation of Burbage’s “Theatre”193
XIX.Early Piccadilly205
XX.Literary Expenses in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 1530-1610215
XXI.Old Workings at Tintern Abbey225
XXII.“Mr. Shakspeare about my Lorde’s Impreso”229
XXIII.“The Queen’s Players” in 1536235
XXIV.Mary’s Chapel Royal and Her Coronation Play238
XXV.Sir Andrew Dudley and Lady Margaret Clifford, 1553247
XXVI.Jane, the Queen’s Fool258
XXVII.Elizabeth’s Fools and Dwarfs269
XXVIII.The Roll of Coventry: The Arrest of Prince Henry275
XXIX.The Stratford Poet285
XXX.Sixteenth Century Women Students295
Notes Terminal:
To Art. III331
Art. VII332
Art. XI (1)336
Art. XI (2)343
Art. XIII 346
Index355
Shakespeare’s Environment