A Life of William Shakespeare | Page 4

Patrons habitually 139 addressed in
affectionate terms Direct references to 142 Southampton in the sonnets
of friendship His youthfulness 143 The evidence of 144 portraits
Sonnet cvii. the last 147 of the series Allusions to Queen 147
Elizabeth's death Allusions to 149 Southampton's release from prison
X--THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS
Sonnets of melancholy 151 and self-reproach The youth's relations 153
with the poet's mistress Willobie his Avisa 155 (1594) Summary of 158
conclusions respecting the sonnets XI--THE DEVELOPMENT OF
DRAMATIC POWER 1594-95 Midsummer Night's 161 Dream 1595
All's Well that Ends 162 Well 1595 The Taming of The 163 Shrew
Stratford allusions 164 in the Induction Wincot 165 1597 Henry IV 167
Falstaff 199 1597 The Merry Wives of 171 Windsor 1598 Henry V 173
Essex and the 174 rebellion of 1601 Shakespeare's 176 popularity and
influence Shakespeare's 176 friendship with Ben Jonson The Mermaid
meetings 177 1598 Meres's eulogy 178 Value of his name to 179
publishers 1599 The Passionate 182 Pilgrim 1601 The Phoenix and the
183 Turtle XII--THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE Shakespeare's
185 practical temperament His father's 186 difficulties His wife's debt
187 1596-9 The coat of arms 188 1597, May 4. The purchase of New
193 Place 1598 Fellow-townsmen 195 appear to Shakespeare for aid
Shakespeare's 196 financial position before 1599 Shakespeare's 200

financial position after 1599 His later income 202 Incomes of fellow
203 actors 1601-1610 Shakespeare's 204 formation of his estate at
Stratford 1605 The Stratford tithes 205 1600-1609 Recovery of small
206 debts XIII--MATURITY OF GENIUS Literary work in 1599 207
1599 Much Ado about 208 Nothing 1599 As You Like It 209 1600
Twelfth Night 209 1601 Julius Caesar 211 The strife between 213 adult
actors and boy actors Shakespeare's 216 references to the struggle 1601
Ben Jonson's 217 Poetaster Shakespeare's alleged 219 partisanship in
the theatrical warfare 1602 Hamlet 221 The problem of its 222
publication The First Quarto, 222 1603 The Second Quarto, 223 1604
The Folio version, 223 1623 Popularity of 224 Hamlet 1603 Troilus
and 225 Cressida Treatment of the 227 theme 1603, March 26 Queen
Elizabeth's 229 death James I's patronage 230 XIV--THE HIGHEST
THEMES OF TRAGEDY 1604, Nov. Othello 235 1604, Dec. Measure
for Measure 237 1606 Macbeth 239 1607 King Lear 241 1608 Timon
of Athens 242 1608 Pericles 243 1608 Antony and 245 Cleopatra 1609
Coriolanus 247 XV--THE LATEST PLAYS The placid temper of 248
the latest plays 1610 Cymbeline 249 1611 A Winter's Tale 251 1611
The Tempest 252 Fanciful 256 interpretations of The Tempest
Unfinished plays 258 The lost play of 258 Cardenio The Two Noble
259 Kinsmen Henry VIII 261 The burning of the 262 Globe Theatre
XVI--THE CLOSE OF LIFE Plays at Court in 264 1613 Actor-friends
264 1611 Final settlement at 266 Stratford Domestic affairs 266 1613,
March Purchase of a house 267 in Blackfriars 1614, Oct. Attempt to
enclose 269 the Stratford common fields 1616, April 23rd.
Shakespeare's death 272 1616, April 25th. Shakespeare's burial 272
The will 273 Shakespeare's bequest 273 to his wife Shakespeare's
heiress 275 Legacies to friends 276 The tomb in Stratford 276 Church
Shakespeare's 277 personal character XVII--SURVIVORS AND
DESCENDANTS Mrs. Judith Quiney, 280 (1585-1662) Mrs. Susanna
Hall 281 (1583-1649) The last descendant 282 Shakespeare's 283
brothers, Edmund, Richard, and Gilbert XVIII--AUTOGRAPHS,
PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS Spelling of the 284 poet's name
Autograph signatures 284 Shakespeare's 286 portraits The Stratford
bust 286 The 'Stratford 287 portrait' Droeshout's engraving 287 The
'Droeshout' 288 painting Later portraits 291 The Chandos portrait 292
The 'Jansen' portrait 294 The 'Felton' portrait 294 The 'Soest' portrait

294 Miniatures 295 The Garrick Club bust 295 Alleged death-mask
296 Memorials in 297 sculpture Memorials at 297 Stratford
XIX--BIBLIOGRAPHY Quartos of the poems 299 in the poet's
lifetime Posthumous quartos of 300 the poems The 'Poems' of 1640 300
Quartos of the plays 300 in the poet's lifetime Posthumous quartos of
300 the plays 1623 The First Folio 303 The publishing 303 syndicate
The prefatory matter 306 The value of the text 307 The order of the 307
plays The typography 308 Unique copies 308 The Sheldon copy 309
Estimated number of 310 extant copies Reprints of the First 311 Folio
1632 The Second Folio 312 1663-4 The Third Folio 312 1685 The
Fourth Folio 313 Eighteenth-century 313 editions Nicholas Rowe 314
(1674-1718) Alexander Pope 315 (1688-1744) Lewis Theobald 317
(1688-1744) Sir Thomas Hanmer 317 (1677-1746) Bishop Warburton
318 (1698-1779) Dr. Johnson 319 (1709-1783) Edward Capell 319
(1713-1781) George Steevens 320 (1736-1800) Edmund Malone 322
(1741-1812) Variorum editions 322 Nineteenth-century 323 editors
Alexander Dyce 323 (1798-1869) Howard Staunton 324 (1810-1874)
Nikolaus Delius 324 (1813-1888) The Cambridge edition 324 (1863-6)
Other 324 nineteenth-century editions XX--POSTHUMOUS
REPUTATION Views of 326 Shakespeare's contemporaries Ben
Jonson tribute 327 English opinion 329 between 1660