PREFACE. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I. Shakespeare's Youth, Stratford 1564-1586 § 1. Part II. Shakespeare in London 1586—1608 Goes to London (? on foot) c. 1586: recognised as a rising The state of the roads, means of communication, inns, highwaymen A foreign view, the buildings, the Thames, a water- 92 A. Drink its effects, a fearful example, ale-houses, taverns, English sobriety. B. Tobacco. a tobacco seller, royal disapprobation. C. Dicing and Gaming: cheaters, a gaming-house, false Fashion in general, gorgeous attire, a dandy, Patronage, portrait of a poet, an author's complaint, a pot- The ideal, the other side of the picture § 4. THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH Part III. Shakespeare's last years, Stratford Buys New Place and other property at Stratford 1597* Rogues and the law, a courtesy man, an abraham man, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS George Gascoigne, poet and dramatist, presenting his An Elizabethan Huntsman, from Turberville's Noble Arte Frontispiece The south bank of the Thames, showing the Globe The Southwark Gate of London Bridge, from Visscher's A sixteenth century printer's office, from A book of trades, 1568 An Elizabethan stage, from Victor E. Albright's Shaksperian Stage, 1909 Charlecote Hall, from Dr Furnivall's edition of Harrison's |