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PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. INCEPTION OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE
AND THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON
PAGE
vii
I
II. INTRODUCTORY TO THE SONNETS
33
III. Venus AND ADONIS AND THE FIRST BOOK of Sonnets.
1591-1592.
52
IV. SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORK AT THE PERIOD OF
THE SECOND BOOK OF SONNETS.
1592-1593
69
V. MISTRESS ANNE DAVENANT OF OXFORD, AS THE Dark
LADY OF THE SONNETS
VI. THE THIRD BOOK OF SONNETS. 1593-1594
VII. MIDSummer Night's DREAM, COMPOSED FOR THE
MARRIAGE OF SIR THOMAS HENEAGE TO LADY
SOUTHAMPTON UPON MAY 2, 1594
VIII. THE SUBJECTIVE PHASES OF ROMeo and Juliet con-
CERNING THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON AND HIS
FRIENDS
IX. THE FOURTH BOOK OF SONNETS.
1594
X. THE RIVAL POET BOOK OF SONNETS.
1595
XI. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST AND THE SCHOOL of Night.
1594-1595
XII. SHOWING GEORGE CHAPMAN AS THE ORIGINAL OF
HOLOFERNES AND MATTHEW ROYDON AS THE
CURATE NATHANIEL IN LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST.
XIII. THE ABSENCE OF SOUTHAMPTON'S INFLUENCE FROM
1595 TO 1597, AND ITS RENEWAL IN THE MERCHANT
OF VENICE IN 1597, WITH THE SIXTH BOOK OF
SONNETS. 1597
XIV. A Lover's ComplaINT-A REFLECTION OF CIRCUM-
STANCES IN THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON'S LIFE
IN 1598 .
• 326
339
XV. DISPLAYING ELIZABETH VERNON AS HELENA AND THE
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON AS BERTRAM IN ALL'S
WELL THAT Ends Well
XVI. THE SEVENTH BOOK of SonnetS. 1598
380
404
423
XVII. A CONSIDERATION OF THE "MR. W. H." OF THORPE'S
DEDICATION AND OF THE Sonnets tTO THE DARK
XIX. THE INCEPTION OF THE ALLEGED "WAR OF THE
THEATRES"
XX. SHOWING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE'S
TROILUS And CressidDA AND DEKKER'S AGA-
MEMNON
XXI. INDICATING THE ORIGINAL COMPOSITION OF TROILUS
AND CRESSIDA IN 1596 AND ITS REVISIONS IN
1598, 1602 AND 1609
XXII. SHAKESPEARE AND THE SCHOLARS. 1597-1609
488
504
511
530
APPENDIX-
I. THE CROSSE INN AND THE TAVERN OF Oxford.
By E. THURLOW LEEDS, F.S.A.
II. THE DAVENANTS OF LONDON AND OXFORD
1. Extracts from the Will of RAUFE DAVENANT. 1552. 618
2. Extracts from the Will of JOHN Davenant, Senior.
III. WILLIAM Bird, Mayor of BRISTOL, AND HIS FAMILY 626
1. Will of William Birde, Mayor of Bristol. 1583-90. 634
2. Will of Edward Byrde, elder son of the Mayor.
1596
643
3. Will of WILLIAM BYRDE, younger son of the Mayor.
1597
644
4. Will of MILES JACKSON, son-in-law of the Mayor.
1616
645
5. Will of ANNE BIRDE, widow of the Mayor. 1616-7 . 653
IV. JOHN DAvenant of Oxford, and tHE HOUGHS.
654
1. Will of JOHN DAVENANT of Oxford.
1622
. 658
.
2. Will of WILLIAM HOUGH of Oxford. 1593 ·
663
3. Will of WILLIAM HOUGH, Junior, of Oxford. 1606 664