Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 First Things -- Career in brief -- Authorship -- Play and page -- Printed books -- Posthumous publication -- 2 The Recorded Life -- Stratford and family --...
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 First Things -- Career in brief -- Authorship -- Play and page -- Printed books -- Posthumous publication -- 2 The Recorded Life -- Stratford and family -- Catholic England -- Education -- 3 Plays, Player, Playwright -- 'Shake-scene' -- Immediate predecessors -- First plays -- Language -- Verse -- 4 Poetic Dramatist -- Love's Labour's Lost -- Romeo and Juliet -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 5 Histories -- Richard II -- Henry IV parts I and II -- Henry V -- Comprehensiveness -- Versatility -- 6 The Merchant of Venice and the Whirligig of Time -- 7 To the Globe -- Much Ado About Nothing -- Julius Caesar -- As You Like It -- Twelfth Night -- 'Shake-speare's Sonnets' -- 8 Hamlet and Horatio's Question -- 9 Taken to Extremes -- Problem plays -- Measure for Measure -- 10 Tragedies -- Othello -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Antony and Cleopatra -- 11 Late Romances -- The Winter's Tale -- The Tempest -- 12 Retrospect -- Shakespeare's supposed point of view -- 'Read him therefore' -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
