PREFACE. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I. Shakespeare's Youth, Stratford 1564-1586 31 PAGE Part II. Shakespeare in London 1586-1608 The state of the roads, means of communication, § 2. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON A foreign view, the buildings, the Thames, a water- 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 dice, card-sharping. D. Debt and Usury: Fashion in general, gorgeous attire, a dandy, Patronage, portrait of a poet, an author's complaint, a pot- General behaviour, a gallant at the playhouse Shakespeare's opinion, character of a player, magni- ficence of players' dress, the queen's players on § 5. PURITAN OPPOSITION TO THE THEATRE Denunciation from Paul's Cross, a sweeping con- 172 Part III. Shakespeare's last years, Stratford Buys New Place and other property at Stratford 1597: leaves London 1608: writes his last plays The Rogues and the law, a courtesy man, an abraham man, (The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, England's naval power, a merchant, the sailor's life, the story LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS George Gascoigne, poet and dramatist, presenting his An Elizabethan Huntsman, from Turberville's Noble Arte 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 " P. 140 An Elizabethan stage, from Victor E. Albright's Shaksperian Stage, 1909 Charlecote Hall, from Dr Furnivall's edition of Harrison's |
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