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PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Frontispiece
SHAKESPEARE'S ARMS 17
OLD HOUSE AT WILMECOTE, BY SOME SUPPOSED TO BE ROBERT ARDEN'S To face 35
PRESENT VIEW OF SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE " 55
THE GUILD CHAPEL, FROM THE SITE OF NEW PLACE " 67
THE CHANCEL, TRINITY CHURCH " 83
SHAKESPEARE'S EPITAPH 84
ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE To face 88
ANNE SHAKESPEARE'S EPITAPH 90
SNITTERFIELD CHURCH To face 113
NORDEN'S MAP OF LONDON, 1593 " 142
WARWICK CASTLE " 162
SWAN THEATRE (BY DR. GAIDERTY) " 214
THE BEAR GARDEN AND HOPE THEATRE " 216
SWAN THEATRE " 216

When, from the midst of a people, there riseth a man
Who voices the life of its life, the dreams of its soul,
The Nation's Ideal takes shape, on Nature's old plan,
Expressing, informing, impelling, the fashioning force of the whole.
The Spirit of England, thus Shakespeare our Poet arose;
For England made Shakespeare, as Shakespeare makes England anew.
His people's ideals should clearly their kinship disclose,
To England, themselves, the more true, in that they to their Shakespeare are true.