A Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

by George Madden Martin

CONTENTS

• [LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]
• [CHAPTER I.]
• [CHAPTER II.]
• [CHAPTER III.]
• [CHAPTER IV.]
• [CHAPTER V.]
• [CHAPTER VI.]
• [CHAPTER VII.]
• [CHAPTER VIII.]
• [CHAPTER IX.]
• [CHAPTER X.]
• [CHAPTER XI.]
• [CHAPTER XII.]
• [CHAPTER XIII.]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• [Birthplace of Shakespeare] Frontispiece
• ["Will clambered up on the settle to think it all over"]
• ["Dad bends to tweak the ear of Will"]
• ["'Ay, but those are brave words, Hammie,' says Gammer"]
• ["'Save us! What's that!' cried Gammer"]
• ["'Ay, boy, you shall see the players'"]
• ["'An' I shall be a player, too,' ... says Willy Shakespeare"]
• ["His mother stepping now and then to the lattice window"]
• ["Bound for Grandfather's at Snitterfield they were"]
• ["For instance he knew one Bardolph ... the tapster at the tavern"]
• ["Hidden away among the willows ... he spends the morning"]
• ["The two have run away ... to wander about the river banks"]
• ["He ... trudged up the path and peered in at the open door"]
• ["'When the masterful hand, groping, seizes mine, I shall know it'"]
• ["This strange thing called Death ..."]
• ["Dad ... sat staring in moody silence"]
• ["Tall, sturdy Will Shakespeare could buy up cattle ... as well as the butcher's son"]

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