CONTENTS.
John A. Joyce
Page
Sweepstakes
ix
CHAPTER I.
Birth. School Days. Shows
1
CHAPTER II.
Launched. Apprentice Boy. Ambition
11
CHAPTER III.
Farm. Life. Sporting. Poaching on Lucy
19
CHAPTER IV.
In Search of Peace and Fortune
27
CHAPTER V.
London. Its Guilt and Glory
37
CHAPTER VI.
Taverns. Theatres. Variegated Society
45
CHAPTER VII.
Theatrical Drudgery. Compositions
53
CHAPTER VIII.
Growing Literary Renown. Royal Patrons
61
CHAPTER IX.
Bohemian Hours. Westminster Abbey. "Love's Labor's Lost"
73
CHAPTER X.
Queen Elizabeth. War. Shakspere in Ireland
82
CHAPTER XI.
Rural England. "Romeo and Juliet"
91
CHAPTER XII.
"Julius CÆsar"
110
CHAPTER XIII.
Two Tramps. By Land and Sea
130
CHAPTER XIV.
Windsor Park. "Midsummer Night's Dream"
156
CHAPTER XV.
The Jew. Shylock. "Merchant of Venice"
175
CHAPTER XVI.
The Supernatural. "Hamlet"
202
CHAPTER XVII.
Death of Queen Elizabeth. Coronation of King James
233
CHAPTER XVIII.
Shakspere as Monologist. King James
244
CHAPTER XIX.
Stratford. Shakspere's Death. Patriotism Down the Ages
270
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