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Contents
15641591 | 5 |
1592March 1603 | 27 |
John Shakespeare Cited for Failing to Attend Church | 30 |
Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about Henry VI | 38 |
Possible Allusion to The Rape ofLucrece in Draytons Matilda | 44 |
Account of an Attempted Performance of The Comedy of Errors | 50 |
Stationers Register Entry | 52 |
Writ of Attachment Requested against Shakespeare and Others | 58 |
Allusion to Justice Shallow in Woodhouses The Flea | 171 |
Possible Allusions to Richard III and Twelfth Night in Dekkers | 177 |
The Kings Men Paid for Court Performances | 180 |
Mary Shakespeares Burial Record | 186 |
Stationers Register Entries | 195 |
Pericles and King Lear Performed at Gowthwaite Hall | 196 |
Allusion to Falstaff in Sharpes More Fooles Yet | 202 |
Bill of Complaint Regarding the Stratford Tithes | 208 |
Stationers Register Entries | 65 |
Shakespeare Listed as Hoarding Grain | 71 |
Shakespeare Is Paid for a Load of Stone | 78 |
Allusion to Loves Labors Lost in Toftes Alba | 86 |
Further Details of Shakespeares Share of the Globe | 95 |
Publications | 100 |
The Publication of Englands Helicon | 106 |
Allusions to Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in Lanes | 112 |
The Publication of Chesters Loves Martyr | 117 |
Publications | 123 |
Hercules Underhill Acknowledges Shakespeares Ownership | 129 |
Allusion to Shakespeare in A mournefull Dittie | 136 |
April 16031616 | 137 |
Shakespeare Named in Phillipss Will | 158 |
Hubauds Bond to Shakespeare | 165 |
Publications | 215 |
Shakespeare and Burbage Paid for Impresa | 221 |
The Kings Men Paid for Court Performances | 227 |
Publication | 228 |
The Kings Men Paid for Court Performances | 235 |
Publication | 249 |
Shakespeares Posthumous Reputation and the First Folio | 253 |
Appendix | 273 |
Regulations for the Theater | 281 |
Epigrams and Satires | 289 |
AntiTheatrical Tracts | 304 |
Practical Matters | 310 |
Cumulative Index | 319 |
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