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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 |