CONTENTS.
[CHAPTER I. A Forest Scene]
[CHAPTER II. The Youthful Shakespeare]
[CHAPTER III. Charlotte Clopton]
[CHAPTER IV. The Family of the Cloptons]
[CHAPTER V. A Domestic Party in Elizabeth's Day]
[CHAPTER VI. A Disagreeable Visitor]
[CHAPTER VII. Plots and Counterplots]
[CHAPTER VIII. Stratford-upon-Avon]
[CHAPTER IX. The Tavern]
[CHAPTER X. The Churchyard of Stratford-upon-Avon]
[CHAPTER XI. The Stratford Lawyer]
[CHAPTER XII. The Sonnet]
[CHAPTER XIII. Mother and Son]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Lovers]
[CHAPTER XV. Charlecote]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Attack]
[CHAPTER XVII. The Capture]
[CHAPTER XVIII. A Revel at Clopton]
[CHAPTER XIX. The Plague at Stratford]
[CHAPTER XX. More Trouble at Clopton]
[CHAPTER XXI. Domestic Affliction]
[CHAPTER XXII. Bereavement]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Vault]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Village Fete—Ann Hathaway]
[CHAPTER XXV. The Twelfth-tide Revelry]
[CHAPTER XXVI. The Misled Wanderer]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Suitor]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. Shottery Hall]
[CHAPTER XXIX. The Lovers]
[CHAPTER XXX. The Adventurers]
[CHAPTER XXXI. The Benedict]
[CHAPTER XXXII. The Hostel]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. The Deer Stealers]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. The Adventure]
[CHAPTER XXXV. More Matter for a May Morning]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. The Lampoon]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. The Garden]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Flight to London]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. Old London]
[CHAPTER XL. The Poor Player]
[CHAPTER XLI. The Tavern Revel]
[CHAPTER XLII. More Strange than True]
[CHAPTER XLIII. England on the Defensive]
[CHAPTER XLIV. The Boar's Head, in East Cheap]
[CHAPTER XLV. The Camp at Tilbury]
[CHAPTER XLVI. The Invincible Armada]
[CHAPTER XLVII. The Player at Court]
[CHAPTER XLVIII. Sir Thomas Lucy in London]
[CHAPTER XLIX. The Theatre of the Blackfriars]
[CHAPTER L. The Scenic Hour]
[CHAPTER LI. The Tavern]
[CHAPTER LII. The Player in his Lodging]
[CHAPTER LIII. The Poet and his Patron]
[CHAPTER LIV. A Consultation]
[CHAPTER LV. Ill Weaved Ambition]
[CHAPTER LVI. The Associates]
[CHAPTER LVII. The Poet and his Friends]
[CHAPTER LVIII. Stratford and its Neighbourhood]
[CHAPTER LIX. Kenilworth]
[CHAPTER LX. The Return]
[CHAPTER LXI. The Discomfited Scrivener]
[CHAPTER LXII. Old Friends]
[CHAPTER LXIII. Which ends this strange eventful History]