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PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [Frontispiece]
SHAKESPEARE'S ARMS [17]
OLD HOUSE AT WILMECOTE, BY SOME SUPPOSED TO BE ROBERT ARDEN'S To face [35]
PRESENT VIEW OF SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE " [55]
THE GUILD CHAPEL, FROM THE SITE OF NEW PLACE " [67]
THE CHANCEL, TRINITY CHURCH " [83]
SHAKESPEARE'S EPITAPH [84]
ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE To face [88]
ANNE SHAKESPEARE'S EPITAPH [90]
SNITTERFIELD CHURCH To face [113]
NORDEN'S MAP OF LONDON, 1593 " [142]
WARWICK CASTLE " [162]
SWAN THEATRE (BY DR. GAIDERTY) " [214]
THE BEAR GARDEN AND HOPE THEATRE " [216]
SWAN THEATRE " [216]
When, from the midst of a people, there riseth a man
Who voices the life of its life, the dreams of its soul,
The Nation's Ideal takes shape, on Nature's old plan,
Expressing, informing, impelling, the fashioning force of the whole.
The Spirit of England, thus Shakespeare our Poet arose;
For England made Shakespeare, as Shakespeare makes England anew.
His people's ideals should clearly their kinship disclose,
To England, themselves, the more true, in that they to their Shakespeare are true.