Shakespeare the Boy / With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Shakespeare the Boy, by W. J. (William James) Rolfe
SHAKESPEARE THE BOY
WITH SKETCHES OF
THE HOME AND SCHOOL LIFE THE GAMES AND SPORTS, THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND FOLK-LORE OF THE TIME
WILLIAM JAMES ROLFE, Litt.D.
WITH FORTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1897
Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Two years ago, at the request of the editors of the Youth's Companion , I wrote for that periodical a series of four familiar articles on the boyhood of Shakespeare. It was understood at the time that I might afterwards expand them into a book, and this plan is carried out in the present volume. The papers have been carefully revised and enlarged to thrice their original compass, and a new fifth chapter has been added.
W. J. Rolfe
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SHAKESPEARE THE BOY
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
WARWICKSHIRE
WARWICK CASTLE AND SAINT MARY'S CHURCH.
WARWICK IN HISTORY.
GUY OF WARWICK.
KENILWORTH CASTLE.
COVENTRY.
CHARLECOTE HALL.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF STRATFORD.
THE STRATFORD GUILD.
THE STRATFORD CORPORATION.
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF STRATFORD.
THE DWELLING-HOUSES OF THE TIME
THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
FOOD AND DRINK.
THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
INDOOR AMUSEMENTS.
POPULAR BOOKS.
STORY-TELLING.
CHRISTENINGS.
SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH BIRTH AND BAPTISM.
CHARMS AND AMULETS.
FOOTNOTES:
THE STRATFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
WHAT SHAKESPEARE LEARNT AT SCHOOL.
THE NEGLECT OF ENGLISH.
SCHOOL LIFE IN SHAKESPEARE'S DAY.
SCHOOL MORALS.
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE.
WHEN WILLIAM LEFT SCHOOL.
FOOTNOTES:
BOYISH GAMES
SWIMMING AND FISHING.
BEAR-BAITING.
COCK-FIGHTING AND COCK-THROWING.
OTHER CRUEL SPORTS.
ARCHERY.
HUNTING
FOWLING.
HAWKING.
THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.
SAINT GEORGE'S DAY.
EASTER.
THE PERAMBULATION OF THE PARISH.
MAY-DAY AND THE MORRIS-DANCE.
WHITSUNTIDE.
MIDSUMMER EVE.
CHRISTMAS.
SHEEP-SHEARING.
HARVEST-HOME.
MARKETS AND FAIRS.
RURAL OUTINGS.
ADDENDA
FOOTNOTES:
SCHOOL COURSES IN SHAKESPEARE
