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ОглавлениеII—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE
The father in municipal office.
The father’s financial difficulties.
The poet’s classical equipment.
Richard Hathaway of Shottery. Anne Hathaway.
Formal betrothal probably dispensed with.
Unwarranted doubts of the tradition.
The Lord Chamberlain’s company.
A member of the Lord Chamberlain’s.
Shakespeare’s alleged travels. In Scotland.
Alleged scorn of an actor’s calling.
Chronology of the plays. Metrical tests.
Greene’s attack. Chettle’s apology.
Divided authorship of ‘Henry VI.’
Shakespeare’s assimilative power.
Marlowe’s influence in tragedy. ‘Richard III.’
‘Comedy of Errors’ in Gray’s Inn Hall.
Early plays doubtfully assigned to Shakespeare.
VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC
Publication of ‘Venus and Adonis.’
Enthusiastic reception of the poems.
VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY
The vogue of the Elizabethan sonnet.
Shakespeare’s first experiments.
Majority of Shakespeare’s sonnets composed in 1594.
Their piratical publication in 1609. ‘A Lover’s Complaint.’
The form of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Want of continuity. The two ‘groups.’
Main topics of the first ‘group.’
Main topics of the second ‘group.’
Lack of genuine sentiment in Elizabethan sonnets. Their dependence on French and Italian models.
Sonnetteers’ admission of insincerity.
Contemporary censure of sonnetteers’ false sentiment. ‘Gulling Sonnets.’
Shakespeare’s scornful allusion to sonnets in his plays.
VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS
Slender autobiographical element in Shakespeare’s sonnets. The imitative element.
Shakespeare’s claims of immortality for his sonnets a borrowed conceit.
Conceits in sonnets addressed to a woman.
Gabriel Harvey’s ‘Amorous Odious Sonnet.’
IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON
Biographic fact in the ‘dedicatory’ sonnets.
The Earl of Southampton the poet’s sole patron.
Rivals in Southampton’s favour.
Shakespeare’s fear of a rival poet.
Barnabe Barnes probably the rival.
Other theories as to the rival’s identity.
Extravagances of literary compliment.
Patrons habitually addressed in affectionate terms.
Direct references to Southampton in the sonnets of friendship.
Sonnet cvii. the last of the series.
Allusion to Elizabeth’s death.
Allusions to Southampton’s release from prison.
X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS
The youth’s relations with the poet’s mistress.
Summary of conclusions respecting the sonnets.
XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER
Stratford allusions in the Induction.
Essex and the rebellion of 1601.
Shakespeare’s popularity and influence.
Value of his name to publishers.
XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE
Shakespeare’s practical temperament.
Appeals for aid from his fellow-townsmen.
Financial position before 1599.
Financial position after 1599.
Formation of the estate at Stratford 1601-10.
The strife between adult and boy actors.
Shakespeare’s references to the struggle.
Shakespeare’s alleged partisanship.
The problem of its publication.
Queen Elizabeth’s death, March 26, 1603.
XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY
‘Othello’ and ‘Measure for Measure.’
Fanciful interpretations of ‘The Tempest.’
Unfinished plays. The lost play of ‘Cardenio.’
Plays at Court in 1613. Actor-friends.
Final settlement at Stratford.
Purchase of a house in Blackfriars.
Attempt to enclose the Stratford common fields.
The will. Bequest to his wife.
His heiress. Legacies to friends.
XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS
The survivors. Mistress Judith Quiney.
XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS
Spelling of the poet’s surname. Autograph signatures.
Shakespeare’s portraits. The Stratford bust. The ‘Stratford’ portrait.
Quartos of the poems in the poet’s lifetime.
Posthumous quartos of the poems.
Quartos of the plays in the poet’s lifetime.
Posthumous quartos of the plays.
The First Folio. The publishing syndicate.
Estimated number of extant copies.
The Second Folio. The Third Folio. The Fourth Folio.
Alexander Dyce, 1798-1869. Howard Staunton, 1810-1874. The Cambridge edition, 1863-6.
Other nineteenth-century editions.
John Philip Kemble, 1757-1823. Mrs. Sarah Siddons, 1755-1831.
William Charles Macready, 1793-1873.
Translations. In Germany. German translations.
Modern German writers on Shakespeare.
In France. Voltaire’s strictures.
French critics’ gradual emancipation from Voltairean influence.
Character of Shakespeare’s achievement.
I.—THE SOURCES OF BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.
II.—THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE CONTROVERSY.
III.—THE YOUTHFUL CAREER OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON.
IV.—THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON AS A LITERARY PATRON.
V.—THE TRUE HISTORY OF THOMAS THORPE AND ‘MR. W. H.’
VII.—SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF PEMBROKE.
IX.—THE VOGUE OF THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET, 1591-1597.
