William Shakespeare

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Plan of the Series

xxvii

Introduction

xxix

A Note on the Text

xxxv

Acknowledgments

xxxvi

Short Titles of Works Cited in this Volume

(2)

Baptism through the Lost Years'': 1564-1591

(22)

1564

William Shakespeare's Birth and Name

(4)

Box: A Note on Dates during Shakespeare's Life

Facsimile: Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

1566

Gilbert Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

(1)

1569

Joan Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

(1)

The Queen's Players and the Earl of Worcester's Players Visit Stratford-upon-Avon

(1)

1571

Anne Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

(1)

1573

Visit of the Earl of Leicester's Players

(1)

1574

Richard Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

(2)

Box: Money in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras

1576

Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players

(1)

1578

Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players

(1)

1579

Anne Shakespeare's Burial Record

(1)

Visits of the Lord Strange's Players and the Countess of Essex's Players

(1)

1580

Inquest on the Body of Katherine Hamlett

(1)

Edmund Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

(1)

Visit of the Earl of Derby's Players

(3)

Box: An Age of Exploration and Colonization

Box: A Touring Company Performance

1581

The Will of Alexander Hoghton of Lea, Esquire

(1)

Visits of the Earl of Worcester's Players and Lord Berkley's Players

(1)

1582

Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players

(1)

Records of Shakespeare's Marriage

(2)

Entry in Bishop Whitgift's Register naming Anne Whatley

Facsimile and transcription: Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's Marriage License Bond

Box: Acting as a Profession

1583

Susanna Shakespeare

(1)

Fascimile: Susanna Shakespeare's Baptismal Record Epitaph

1584

Visits of the Lord Berkley's Players and the Lord Chandos's Players

(1)

1585

Visits of the Earl of Oxford's Players, the Earl of Worcester's Players, and the Earl of Essex's Players

(1)

Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

(1)

Facsimile: Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record

1587

Visit of Unidentified Players

(1)

1588

Visits of the Queen's Players, the Earl of Essex's Players, the Earl of Leicester's Players, and an Unidentified Company

(2)

Box: On the Charms of Plays

Record of John Shakespeare's Lawsuit against John Lambert in which William Shakespeare Is Named

(2)

1589

Allusion to an ur-Hamlet in Nashe's Preface to Greene's Menaphon

(2)

The Elizabethan Years: 1592-March 1603

(110)

1592

Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about King Henry VI

(2)

John Shakespeare Cited for Failing to Attend Church

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Greene's Groats-worth of Witte

(2)

Box: Signature Designations

Possible Allusion to 1 Henry PI in Nashe's Pierce Penilesse

(3)

Box: Shakespeare's Work on Sir Thomas More

1593

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame

(3)

Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about Henry VI

(1)

Shakespeare's First Publication

(1)

Stationers' Entry for Venus and Adonis

Fascimile: Tide page for Venus and Adonis

Box: Quartos and Folios

Box: The Stationers' Company

The Dedication of Venus and Adonis to the Earl of Southampton

(1)

Stonley Buys a Copy of Venus and Adonis

(1)

Reynolds Interprets Venus and Adonis

(1)

1594

Henslowe Records Performances of Titus Andronicus and Other Plays

(1)

Stationers' Register Entries

(1)

Entries for Titus Andronicus, The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis

Publications

(1)

Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis

Facsimile: Title page for The Rape of Lucrece

Facsimile: Title page for Titus Andronicus

Facsimile: Title page for The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster

The Dedication of The Rape of Lucrece to the Earl of Southampton

(1)

Shakespeare's Company Paid for a Court Performance

(1)

Probable Allusion to Titus Andronicus in A Knacke to know a Knave

(1)

Possible Allusion to The Rape of Lucrece in Drayton's Matilda

(1)

Allusion to The Rape of Lucrece in Har.'s Epicedium

(1)

Allusion to W. S. and The Rape of Lucrece in Willobie His Avisa

(5)

Box: On Printing Plays

Box: The Reliability of Shakespeare's Texts

Account of an Attempted Performance of The Comedy of Errors in Gesta Grayorum

(2)

1595

Stationers' Register Entry

(1)

Entry for Edward III

Possible Allusion to Richard III in Hoby's Letter to Cecil

(1)

Publications

(1)

Facsimile: Title page for The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York

Facsimile: Title page for The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine

Allusion to Shakespeare in Covell's Polimanteia

(1)

1596

A New Year's Performance of Titus Andronicus

(1)

Stationers' Register Entry

(1)

Entry for Venus and Adonis

Publications

(1)

Transcribed title pages for Venus and Adonis and Edward III

Facsimile: Hamnet Shakespeare's burial record

Box: The Price of a Play

John Shakespeare's Request for a Grant of Arms

(2)

Box: The Hierarchy of the Gentry

Writ of Attachment Requested against Shakespeare and Others

(1)

Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Lodge's Wits Miserie

(1)

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performance

(1)

1597

Shakespeare's Purchase of New Place

(2)

Shakespeare Confirms Ownership of New Place

(2)

Box: London's Mayor Requests a Ban on Plays Stationers' Register Entries

(1)

Stationers' Register Entries

(1)

Entries for Richard II and Richard III

Publications

(1)

Transcribed title page for Richard II

Facsimile: Title page for Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for Romeo and Juliet

Record Showing Shakespeare as a Tax Defaulter

(1)

Box: The Table of Contents of the Northumberland Manuscript

Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Court Performances

(1)

1598

Letter from Sturley to Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare

(4)

Shakespeare Listed as Hoarding Grain

(1)

Stationers' Register Entries

(1)

Entries for 1 Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice

Publications

(1)

Transcribed title pages for The Rape of Lucrece, Richard II, and Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for 1 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Love's Labor's Lost

London Tax Indenture Listing Shakespeare

(1)

Letter from Richard Quiney to Shakespeare

(2)

Letter from Adrian to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare

(1)

Letter from Sturley to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare

(3)

Box: Blood Sports and Executions

Shakespeare Is Paid for a Load of Stone

(1)

Allen's Bill of Complaint Regarding The Theatre

(4)

Facsimile: Page from The Workes of Benjamin Jonson listing Shakespeare

Allusion to Shakespeare in Barnfield's The Encomion of Lady Pecunia

(1)

Allusion to Romeo and Juliet in Marston's The Scourge of Villanie

(1)

Allusions to Shakespeare and His Plays in Meres's Palladis Tamia

(4)

Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Tofte's Alba

(1)

Shakespeare Listed as a Tax Defaulter

(1)

The Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Performances

(1)

Harvey's Comments on Shakespeare

(1)

Shakespeare's Poetry Mocked in The First Part of the Return from Parnassus

(3)

Box: The Globe in Southwark

1599

Shakespeare Identified as a Sharer in the Globe

(5)

Further Details of Shakespeare's Share of the Globe

(1)

Possible Allusion to 1 Henry IV in Whyte's Letter to Sidney

(3)

Box: A Royal Edict on the Production of Plays

Brend's Property Inventory Listing Shakespeare

(1)

Platter Sees Julius Caesar

(1)

Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll

100

(1)

Publications

100

(1)

Transcribed title pages for Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet, 1 Henry IV, and The Passionate Pilgrime

Weever's Poem About Shakespeare in Epigrammes

100

(1)

Box: Shakespeare Cited on the Title Page of Pinner of Wakefield

John Shakespeare's Grant of Arms

101

(1)

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances

102

(1)

1600

A Contract to Build the Fortune Theater

102

(2)

Stationers' Register Entries

104

(1)

Entries for As You Like It, Henry V, Much Ado about Nothing, 2 Henry IV, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice

Publications

104

(1)

Transcribed title pages for The Rape of Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, and The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of York and Lancaster

Facsimile: Title page for The Merchant of Venice

Facsimile: Title page for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Facsimile: Title page for Much Ado about Nothing

Facsimile: Title page for 2 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Henry V

Allusion to 1 Henry IV in the Life of Sir John Oldcastle

105

(1)

The Publication of Englands Helicon

106

(1)

Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll

107

(1)

Allusion to Justices Silence and Shallow in Percy's Letter

107

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Bodenham's Bel-vedere

107

(3)

Allusion to Falstaff in Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humor

110

(1)

Possible Allusions to Shakespeare and an Early Version of Macbeth in Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder

110

(2)

Allusions to Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in Lane's Tom Tel Troths Message

112

(1)

Allusion to the Globe in Rowlands's The Letting of Humours Blood

112

(1)

Allusion to Falstaff in a Letter from the Countess of Southampton to the Earl of Southampton

112

(1)

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances

113

(1)

1601

A Performance of Richard II and the Essex Rebellion

113

(3)

Shakespeare and His Wife Named in Whittington's Will

116

(1)

John Shakespeare's Burial Record

116

(1)

The Publication of Chester's Love's Martyr

117

(1)

Allusions to Richard III and 1 Henry IV in The Whipping of the Satyre

117

(1)

Allusion to 1 Henry IV in Weever's The Mirror of Martyrs

117

(1)

Allusions to Shakespeare in The Returne From Pernassus

118

(4)

Allusion to Richard III in Marston's What You Will

122

(1)

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances

122

(1)

1602

Stationers' Register Entries

122

(1)

Entries for The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1 and 2 Henry VI, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet

Publications

123

(1)

Transcriptions of the tide pages for Venus and Adonis, Henry V, and Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for The Merry Wives of Windsor

Manningham Sees Twelfth Night and Reports a Story about Shakespeare and Richard Burbage

124

(2)

The Shakespeare Coat of Arms Questioned

126

(1)

John Shakespeare Defended in the College of Arms

126

(1)

Deed of Conveyance for Land in Stratford

126

(3)

Hercules Underhill Acknowledges Shakespeare's Ownership of New Place

129

(2)

Box: The Swan and the Other Theaters of London

Shakespeare Buys a Cottage in Chapel Lane

131

(1)

Richard Vennar Causes a Scandal at the Swan

132

(1)

Box: John Chamberlain's Account of the Vennar Incident

Allusions to The Comedy of Errors and Justice Shallow in Dekker's Satiro-mastix

133

(1)

Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances

134

(1)

1603

Stationers' Register Entries

134

(1)

Entries for Troilus and Cressida, Richard II, Richard III, and 1 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Hamlet

Box: The First Quarto of Hamlet

Allusion to Shakespeare in Chettle's Englandes Mourning Garment

134

(2)

Allusion to Shakespeare in ``A mournefull Dittie''

136

(1)

The Jacobean Years: April 1603-1616

137

(116)

1603

Shakespeare's Company Becomes the King's Men

138

(1)

Box: A Stationer's Record of Shakespeare's Plays

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

139

(2)

Possible Allusions to The Rape of Lucrece and Two Plays in Saint Marie Magdalens Conversion

141

(1)

Shakespeare Named in Camden's ``Certaine Poemes''

141

(1)

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Microcosmos

142

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

142

(1)

1604

Possible Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Carleton's Letter to Chamberlain

143

(2)

Box: Satan at the Globe

The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform

145

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

145

(1)

The King's Men Congratulated in Dugdale's The Time Triumphant

146

(1)

Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Cope's Letter to Cecil

146

(1)

Box and Facsimile: The King's Men in the Coronation Procession

The King's Men Paid for Attendance on the Spanish Ambassador

146

(1)

Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor

146

(1)

Shakespeare's Involvement in Belott's Suit against Mountjoy

146

(5)

Shakespeare's Suit against Rogers

151

(1)

Publications

152

(1)

Transcription of the title page for 1 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Hamlet

Allusion to Shakespeare in Cooke's Epigrames

153

(1)

Allusion to The Comedy of Errors in Dekker's The Honest Whore

153

(1)

Allusions to Falstaff and The Comedy of Errors in The Meeting of Gallants

153

(1)

Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton's Father Hubburds Tales

154

(1)

Allusion to Falstaff in Persons's Of Three Conversions of England

155

(1)

Allusions to Shakespeare and Hamlet in Scoloker's Daiphantus

155

(2)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

157

(1)

1605

Publications

158

(1)

Transcription of the title page for Richard III

Facsimile: Title page for The London Prodigall

Shakespeare Named in Phillips's Will

158

(1)

Shakespeare Leases the Stratford Tithes

158

(7)

Hubaud's Bond to Shakespeare

165

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Poulet's Letter to Vincent

165

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Ratseis Ghost

166

(2)

Allusion to 2 Henry IV in Breton's A Poste with a Packet of madde Letters

168

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Eastward Hoe

168

(1)

Possible Allusion to The Rape of Lucrece in The Strange Fortune of Alerane

169

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Smith's Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia

169

(2)

Allusion to Justice Shallow in Woodhouse's The Flea

171

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

171

(2)

1606

Shakespeare Listed in Hubaud's Inventory

173

(1)

The Globe Ordered to Repair Its Sewers

173

(1)

Box: A Statute on Blasphemy

Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor

173

(1)

Allusion to Richard III in Barnes's Foure Bookes of Offices

173

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

174

(1)

1607

Stationers' Register Entries

174

(1)

Entries for Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost, The Taming of a Shrew, Hamlet, and King Lear

Publications

174

(1)

Transcriptions of title pages for The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis

Raworth Sanctioned for Printing Venus and Adonis

174

(1)

Susanna Shakespeare's Marriage to John Hall

175

(1)

Edward Shakespeare's Burial Record

175

(1)

Edmund Shakespeare's Burial Record

175

(1)

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange

175

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Barksted's Mirrha The Mother of Adonis

176

(1)

Possible Allusions to Richard III and Twelfth Night in Dekker's A Knights Conjuring

177

(2)

Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker and Webster's West-ward Hoe

179

(1)

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele

179

(1)

Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Sharpham's The Fleire

179

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

180

(1)

Shipboard Performances of Richard II and Hamlet

180

(1)

Box: Playwrights as Directors

1608

Elizabeth Hall's Baptismal Record

180

(1)

Stationers' Register Entries

181

(1)

Entries for A Yorkshire Tragedy, Pericles, and Antony and Cleopatra

Publications

181

(1)

Transcribed title pages for 1 Henry IV, Richard II, and Venus and Adonis

Facsimile: Title page for King Lear

Facsimile: Title page for A Yorkshire Tragedy

Allusion to Performances of Shakespeare's Play in Wilkins's The Painfull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre

182

(1)

Shakespeare's Lease for the Blackfriar's Theater

182

(4)

Mary Shakespeare's Burial Record

186

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Armin's A Nest of Ninnies

186

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker's The Dead Tearme

187

(1)

Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker's Lanthorne and Candle-light

188

(2)

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Machin and Markham's The Dumbe Knight

190

(1)

Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters

190

(1)

The Venetian Ambassador Attends a Performance of Pericles

190

(1)

Possible Allusion to Anne Hathaway

190

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

191

(1)

Shakespeare's Suit against Addenbrooke

191

(4)

1609

Stationers' Register Entries

195

(1)

Entries for Troilus and Cressida and Sonnets

Publications

195

(1)

Transcribed title page for Romeo and Juliet

Facsimile: Title page and dedication page for Shakespeare's Sonnets

Facsimile: Title page for Troilus and Cressida

Facsimile: Title page for Pericles

Preface to The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid

195

(1)

Alleyn Buys a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets

196

(1)

Greene Stays at New Place

196

(1)

Pericles and King Lear Performed at Gowthwaite Hall

196

(1)

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Humours Heav'n on Earth

197

(1)

Possible Allusion to Julius Caesar in Everie Woman in her Humor

198

(1)

Possible Allusion to Pericles in Pimlyco

198

(1)

Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in A whole crew of kind Gossips

199

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform

200

(1)

1610

Publication

200

(1)

Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis

The Prince of Wirtemberg Sees Othello at the Globe

200

(1)

Jackson sees Othello in Oxford

201

(1)

Allusion to the Globe in Heath's Two Centuries Of Epigrammes

201

(1)

Allusion to Falstaff in Sharpe's More Fooles Yet

202

(1)

Forman Sees Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale

202

(4)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

206

(1)

1611

Publications

206

(1)

Transcribed title pages for Hamlet, Pericles, and Titus Andronicus

Facsimile: Title page for King John

Shakespeare's Land Purchase Confirmed

206

(1)

Shakespeare Named in Stratford Highway Bill

207

(1)

Shakespeare Listed in Johnson's Inventory

207

(1)

Bill of Complaint Regarding the Stratford Tithes

208

(1)

Allusion to the Globe in Cooke's Greene's Tu quoque

208

(1)

Poem about Shakespeare and an Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Davies's The Scourge of Folly

209

(1)

Allusion to Falstaff in Field's Amends for Ladies

209

(1)

Allusion to Falstaff in Speed's The History of Great Britaine

210

(1)

The Master of the Revels' Account of Plays Performed

210

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

211

(1)

Harington's List of Shakespeare's Plays

211

(2)

1612

Gilbert Shakespeare's Burial Record

213

(1)

Vaux's Complaint about an Incident at the Globe

213

(2)

Publications

215

(1)

Transcribed title pages for Richard III and The Passionate Pilgrim

Facsimile: Tide page for A Funerall Elegy

Allusions to Shakespeare and Henry V in Heywood's An Apology Far Actors

215

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Webster's Preface to The White Divel

216

(1)

1613

Richard Shakespeare's Burial Record

217

(1)

Publications

217

(1)

Transcribed title pages for 1 Henry IV and Thomas Cromwell

Shakespeare's Purchase of the Blackfriar's Gatehouse

217

(2)

Shakespeare Mortgages the Blackfriar's Gatehouse

219

(2)

Shakespeare and Burbage Paid for Impresa

221

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

221

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Digges's Inscription in de Vega's Rimas

222

(1)

Account of the Burning of the Globe in Lorkin's Letter to Puckering

222

(1)

Account of the Burning of the Globe in Wotton's Letter to Bacon

222

(1)

Account of the Burning of the Globe in Bluett's Letter to Weeks

223

(1)

Account of the Burning of the Globe in Chamberlain's Letter to Winwood

223

(1)

Account of the Burning and Rebuilding of the Globe in The Annales

223

(1)

Report of the Burning of the Globe in The Abridgement of the English Chronicle

224

(1)

Allusion to the Burning of the Globe in Taylor's A nest of Epigrams

224

(1)

Allusion to the Globe in Taylor's The Water Mens Suit

224

(3)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

227

(1)

Shakespeare Named in the Will of John Combe

227

(1)

1614

Rights to Publish The Rape of Lucrece Transferred

227

(1)

Allusion to the Rebuilt Globe in Chamberlain's Letter to Carleton

227

(1)

A Preacher Is Entertained at New Place

228

(1)

Publication

228

(1)

Transcribed title page for Englands Helicon

Possible Allusion to Richard III in Brooke's The Ghost Of Richard The Third

228

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in Camden's Remaines

229

(1)

Allusions to Plays in Johnson's Preface to Bartholomew Fayre

230

(2)

Allusion to Hamlet in Scott's The Philosopher's Banquet

232

(1)

Allusion to Pericles in Tailor's The Hogge Hath Lost His Pearle

232

(1)

Porter's Epigram on Shakespeare

233

(1)

Epigram on Shakespeare in Freeman's Rubbe, And a great Cast

233

(1)

Shakespeare's Possible Involvement in an Enclosure Effort

233

(2)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

235

(1)

1615

Publication

236

(1)

Transcribed title page for Richard II

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

236

(1)

Allusion to Shakespeare in F.B.'s Poem

236

(1)

Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in The New Metamorphosis

236

(2)

Shakespeare Named in Howes and Stow's The Annales

238

(1)

Shakespeare's Suit against Bacon

238

(1)

1616

Shakespeare Named in Bolton's Draft for Hypercritica

239

(1)

Judith Shakespeare's Marriage to Thomas Quiney

239

(1)

The King's Men Paid for Court Performances

240

(1)

Fascimile: William Shakespeare's Burial Record

Shakespeare's Epitaphs

240

(1)

Shakespeare's Will

240

(9)

Transcriptions and facsimile

Publication

249

(1)

Transcribed title page for The Rape of Lucrece

Possible Allusions to Antony'' and Cleopatra and The Comedy of Errors in Anton's The Philosophers Satyrs

249

(2)

Allusion to Richard III in Breton's The Good And The Badde

251

(1)

Allusions to Hamlet and The Rape of Lucrece in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Scornful Ladie

251

(1)

Basse's Poem about Shakespeare

251

(2)

Shakespeare's Posthumous Reputation and the First Folio

253

(60)

1617

Publication

253

(1)

Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis

1619

Stationers' Register Entry

253

(1)

Entry for The Merchant of Venice

Publications

253

(1)

Transcribed title pages for Henry V, King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Whole Contention between the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and York, and A Yorkshire Tragedy

Allusions to Shakespeare in Jonson's ``Conversations with Drummond''

254

(1)

1620

Publication

255

(1)

Title page of Venus and Adonis

1621

Stationers' Register Entry

255

(1)

Entry for Othello

1622

Publications

255

(1)

Transcribed title pages for Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and 1 Henry IV

Facsimile: Title page for Othello

Epistle to the Reader from Othello

256

(1)

1623

Anne Hathaway's Burial

256

(1)

Stationers' Register Entries

256

(1)

Entries for plays to be included in the First Folio

Preliminary Material in the First Folio

257

(8)

Facsimile: Title page for the First Folio

Facsimile: Jonson's note ``To the Reader''

Facsimile and transcription: ``To the great Variety of Readers''

Dedication

Commendatory Verses

Jonson

Hugh Holland

L. Digges

I.M.Digges

Facsimile: List of actors

Facsimile: Table of Contents

Facsimile: First page of The Tempest

Facsimile: Last page of Othello

Facsimile: Last page of Henry VIII

Facsimile: Page from Hamlet

Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries

265

(1)

Epistle to the Reader and Commendatory Verse from Poems: Written

265

(3)

Wil. Shakespeare

Entries from Ward's Diary

268

(1)

Facsimile: Title page for The Taming of the Shrew

Aubrey's Lives

269

(6)

Appendix

Eyewitnesses and Historians

275

(3)

Platter's Observations (1599)

Baron Waldstein's Diary (1600)

Letter of Ottaviano Lotti (1605)

Letter of John Chamberlain (1608)

Letter of Antimo Galli (1613)

Politics and the Theater

278

(3)

Letter of Dudley Carleton (1605)

Letter of John Harington (1606)

Regulations for the Theater

281

(4)

The Book of Common Prayer (1559)

An Act of the Privy Council (1600)

An Act of the Privy Council (1601)

A Privy Council Warrant (1604)

A Letter Attributed to George Chapman (1608)

George Buc's License to Perform The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611)

Prologues, Epilogues, Epistles to Readers, and Excerpts from Plays

285

(4)

Marston's Letter to the Reader of The Malcontent (1604)

Commendatory Poem for Jonson's Sejanus (1605)

Prologue and Epilogue for Marston's Parasitaster (1606)

Note to the Reader of Marston's The Wonder of women (1606)

Heywood's Preface to The Rape of Lucrece (1608)

Jonson's Prefatory Poem for Epicoene (1609)

Jonson on the Audience in The Masque of Queenes (1609)

Address to the Reader and Prologue for The Roaring Girle (1611)

Epigrams and Satires

289

(15)

Greene's Francescos Fortunes (1590)

Greenes, Groats-worth of witte (1592)

Nashe's Christs Teares Over Jerusalem (1593)

Rankins's Seaven Satyes Applyed to the Weeke (1598)

Davies and Marlowe's Epigrammes and Elegies (1599)

Weever's Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion (1599)

Rowlands's The Letting Of Humours Blood In The Head-Vaine (1600)

A Translation of Dedekind's Grobianus et Grobiana (1605)

Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele Gentleman (1607)

Dekker's The Guls Horne-booke (1609)

Parrot's Laquei ridiculosi (1613)

Wither's Abuses Stript, And Whipt (1613)

Breton's I would, And would not (1614)

Overbury's New And Choice Characters (1615)

Stephens's Satyrical Essayes Characters And Others (1615)

Jonson's Epigrammes (1616)

Anti-Theatrical Tracts

304

(2)

Stubbes's ``Of Stage-playes and Enterluds, with their wickednes'' (1583)

Rainolds's Th'overthrow of Stage-Playes (1599)

Vaughan's The Golden grove (1600)

A Defense of Actors

306

(4)

Heywood's An Apology for Actors (1612)

Practical Matters

310

(2)

Inventories of Theatrical Costumes and Properties (1598)

Serlio's The Second Booke of Architecture (1611)

Rid's The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine (1612)

Education

312

(1)

Letter of Gager (1592)

Checklist of Further Reading

313

(6)

Cumulative Index

319

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