ILLUSTRATIONS

SHAKESPEARE THE BOYFrontispiece
THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE, ABOUT 1820[3]
WARWICK CASTLE[5]
GATE-HOUSE OF KENILWORTH CASTLE[13]
COVENTRY CHURCHES AND PAGEANTFacing p.[14]
CHARLECOTE HALL[20]
ENTRANCE TO CHARLECOTE HALL[22]
SIR THOMAS LUCY[23]
STRATFORD CHURCHFacing p.[30]
STRATFORD CHURCH, WEST END[32]
THE GUILD CHAPEL AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL, STRATFORD[35]
MAP—PLAN OF STRATFORD[42]
SHAKESPEARE HOUSE, RESTORED[49]
ROOM IN WHICH SHAKESPEARE WAS BORNFacing p.[50]
INTERIOR OF ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE"[56]
OLD HOUSE IN HIGH STREET[59]
ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGEFacing p.[64]
SHILLING OF EDWARD VI.[68]
ANCIENT FONT AT STRATFORD[81]
PORCH, STRATFORD CHURCHFacing p.[88]
INNER COURT, GRAMMAR SCHOOL[95]
THE SCHOOL-ROOM AS IT WAS[97]
DESK SAID TO BE SHAKESPEARE'S[102]
WALK ON THE BANKS OF THE AVONFacing p.[112]
HIDE-AND-SEEK"[122]
"MORRIS" BOARD[130]
FISHING IN THE AVONFacing p.[132]
THE BEAR GARDEN, LONDON[133]
GARDEN AT NEW PLACEFacing p.[146]
ELIZABETH HAWKING[155]
BOY WITH HAWK AND HOUNDS[159]
ITINERANT PLAYERS IN A COUNTRY HALLFacing p.[160]
WILLIAM KEMP DANCING THE MORRIS[163]
THE BOUNDARY ELM[167]
MORRIS-DANCEFacing p.[178]
CLOPTON HOUSE ON CHRISTMAS EVE"[190]
THE FAIR"[200]
INTERIOR OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BEFORE THE RESTORATION[225]
CLOPTON MONUMENTSFacing p.[238]
THE BAR-GATE, SOUTHAMPTON[242]
ARMS OF JOHN SHAKESPEARE[251]

SHAKESPEARE THE BOY

[Part I]
HIS NATIVE TOWN AND NEIGHBORHOOD


THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE, ABOUT 1820