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PART I

[ SHAKESPEARE sitting on a stile singing. BOTTOM and the other. craftsmen from the Midsummer Night's Dream cross the stage,. followed after a moment's interval by QUINCE , who pauses on. seeing SHAKESPEARE ]

[ WALL holds up his fingers

[Exeunt PYRAMUS and THISBE

[Re-enter THISBE , MOONSHINE , and LION ]

[The actors move off, QUINCE going with them. SHAKESPEARE lingers]

[ SHAKESPEARE lounging and watching the actors enter]

[They go into the theatre, where Tamburlaine is being rehearsed]

[ TAMBURLAINE takes the Crown and puts it on]

[Exeunt. MARLOWE comes forward with SHAKESPEARE , HENSLOWE , and GREENE ]

[ SHAKESPEARE makes a gesture of helplessness]

[Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS ]

[Enter FALSTAFF , GADSHILL , BARDOLPH , POINS , and PETO ]

[They go out]

[A rehearsal of The Taming of the Shrew has been taking place. SHAKESPEARE , HENSLOWE ]

[A stage-hand looks in

[ SOUTHAMPTON , RALEIGH , MARY FITTON , and others]

[As the actors come in, he speaks to HENSLOWE and then goes back. to MARY FITTON ]

[Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO ]

[Enter PETRUCHIO and HORTENSIO with meat]

[The courtiers rise amid a confusion of voices]

[ SHAKESPEARE , returning alone, walks meditatively up and down. two or three times; then he takes out several papers and looks. at them. He sits down and reads aloud:]

[As he stops to make an insertion the curtain falls]

[An ante-chamber opening on a hall where a performance of Henry V is just ending. The final chorus is heard within.]

[The noise of applause and many voices. Some of the players enter]

[ ELIZABETH enters, with SHAKESPEARE , SOUTHAMPTON , RALEIGH ,. and the Court]

[The actors begin]

[Whispers CHARMIAN

[Enter DOLABELLA ]

[Enter a Guardsman]

[Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket]

[Setting down his basket

[Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, &c.]

[Enter the Guard, rushing in]

[After the presentation all look to the Queen to speak. She remains. silent for a moment and then says deliberately:]

[One of the actors comes forward and, at a whisper from SHAKESPEARE , delivers the speech]

[The Queen rises]

[The Queen goes out with the Court. The actors follow]

[ BURBAGE goes, MARY FITTON comes to the entrance, and. beckons SHAKESPEARE with a movement of her head]

[He follows her out]

PART II

[ SHAKESPEARE at work on Troilus and Cressida . After a while he. leaves off writing and correcting and settles down to read] [Enter PRIAM , HECTOR , TROILUS , PARIS , and HELENUS ]

[A knock, FRANCIS BEAUMONT and DAVID NICHOLAS come in]

[ SHAKESPEARE and NICHOLAS go out. BEAUMONT picks up the. manuscript and sits down to read]

[Enter CRESSIDA ]

[ SHAKESPEARE returns, BEAUMONT rises to meet him]

[ SHAKESPEARE , JONSON , BURBAGE , at one table. SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK at another.]

[Enter Clown]

[He gives them a paper. They gather round, examining and. whispering]

[ SHAKESPEARE gives them money and they go out]

[ SHAKESPEARE goes out]

[An early rehearsal of The Tempest is in progress. SHAKESPEARE , BURBAGE , HENEAGE , and the actors]

[A boy sings]

[The boy sings]

[The rehearsal of another scene begins]

[He draws, and is charmed from moving

[Repeating the lines]

[The actors return with their new parts]

[A masque. Enter IRIS ]

[Enter CERES ]

[Enter JUNO ]

[ JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment]

[Enter certain nymphs]

[Enter certain reapers, properly habited: they join with the nymphs. in a graceful dance; towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts. suddenly, and speaks ; after which, to a strange, hollow, and. confused noise, they heavily vanish]

[Enter ARIEL ]

[ PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter CALIBAN , STEPHANO , and TRINCULO , all wet]

[A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers spirits, in shape of hounds,. and hunt them about; PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on]

[ CALIBAN , STEPHANO , and TRINCULO are driven out

[They go out, SHAKESPEARE'S voice dying away in the distance]

[ AUTOLYCUS comes in on his way to the sheep-shearing. He begins. to limp as SHAKESPEARE enters]

[He swings his staff, and as if by accident strikes AUTOLYCUS on. the legs as the Clown enters]

[The feasters are seen]

[He sees FLORIZEL and PERDITA ]

[They join the feasters

[Music. Here a dance of shepherds and shepherdesses]

[ SHAKESPEARE and his son-in-law HALL , BEN JONSON ]

[ HALL goes. As SHAKESPEARE strolls up and down a voice. from without sings]

PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD BY JOHN JOHNSON, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY