William Shakespeare

by Loomis, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780787660079
• ISBN10: 0787660078
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

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Table of Contents

Plan of the Series	xxvii
Introduction	xxix
A Note on the Text	xxxv
Acknowledgments	xxxvi
Short Titles of Works Cited in this Volume	3	(2)
Baptism through the Lost Years'': 1564-1591	5	(22)
1564
William Shakespeare's Birth and Name	5	(4)
Box: A Note on Dates during Shakespeare's Life
Facsimile: Shakespeare's Baptismal Record
1566
Gilbert Shakespeare's Baptismal Record	9	(1)
1569
Joan Shakespeare's Baptismal Record	10	(1)
The Queen's Players and the Earl of Worcester's Players Visit Stratford-upon-Avon	10	(1)
1571
Anne Shakespeare's Baptismal Record	10	(1)
1573
Visit of the Earl of Leicester's Players	10	(1)
1574
Richard Shakespeare's Baptismal Record	10	(2)
Box: Money in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras
1576
Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players	12	(1)
1578
Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players	12	(1)
1579
Anne Shakespeare's Burial Record	12	(1)
Visits of the Lord Strange's Players and the Countess of Essex's Players	12	(1)
1580
Inquest on the Body of Katherine Hamlett	13	(1)
Edmund Shakespeare's Baptismal Record	13	(1)
Visit of the Earl of Derby's Players	13	(3)
Box: An Age of Exploration and Colonization
Box: A Touring Company Performance
1581
The Will of Alexander Hoghton of Lea, Esquire	16	(1)
Visits of the Earl of Worcester's Players and Lord Berkley's Players	17	(1)
1582
Visit of the Earl of Worcester's Players	17	(1)
Records of Shakespeare's Marriage	17	(2)
Entry in Bishop Whitgift's Register naming Anne Whatley
Facsimile and transcription: Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's Marriage License Bond
Box: Acting as a Profession
1583
Susanna Shakespeare	19	(1)
Fascimile: Susanna Shakespeare's Baptismal Record Epitaph
1584
Visits of the Lord Berkley's Players and the Lord Chandos's Players	20	(1)
1585
Visits of the Earl of Oxford's Players, the Earl of Worcester's Players, and the Earl of Essex's Players	21	(1)
Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record	21	(1)
Facsimile: Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare's Baptismal Record
1587
Visit of Unidentified Players	21	(1)
1588
Visits of the Queen's Players, the Earl of Essex's Players, the Earl of Leicester's Players, and an Unidentified Company	21	(2)
Box: On the Charms of Plays
Record of John Shakespeare's Lawsuit against John Lambert in which William Shakespeare Is Named	23	(2)
1589
Allusion to an ur-Hamlet in Nashe's Preface to Greene's Menaphon	25	(2)
The Elizabethan Years: 1592-March 1603	27	(110)
1592
Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about King Henry VI	28	(2)
John Shakespeare Cited for Failing to Attend Church	30	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Greene's Groats-worth of Witte	30	(2)
Box: Signature Designations
Possible Allusion to 1 Henry PI in Nashe's Pierce Penilesse	32	(3)
Box: Shakespeare's Work on Sir Thomas More
1593
Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Chettle's Kind-Harts Dreame	35	(3)
Henslowe Records Performances of a Play about Henry VI	38	(1)
Shakespeare's First Publication	38	(1)
Stationers' Entry for Venus and Adonis
Fascimile: Tide page for Venus and Adonis
Box: Quartos and Folios
Box: The Stationers' Company
The Dedication of Venus and Adonis to the Earl of Southampton	39	(1)
Stonley Buys a Copy of Venus and Adonis	40	(1)
Reynolds Interprets Venus and Adonis	40	(1)
1594
Henslowe Records Performances of Titus Andronicus and Other Plays	40	(1)
Stationers' Register Entries	41	(1)
Entries for Titus Andronicus, The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis
Publications	41	(1)
Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis
Facsimile: Title page for The Rape of Lucrece
Facsimile: Title page for Titus Andronicus
Facsimile: Title page for The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster
The Dedication of The Rape of Lucrece to the Earl of Southampton	42	(1)
Shakespeare's Company Paid for a Court Performance	42	(1)
Probable Allusion to Titus Andronicus in A Knacke to know a Knave	43	(1)
Possible Allusion to The Rape of Lucrece in Drayton's Matilda	44	(1)
Allusion to The Rape of Lucrece in Har.'s Epicedium	44	(1)
Allusion to W. S. and The Rape of Lucrece in Willobie His Avisa	45	(5)
Box: On Printing Plays
Box: The Reliability of Shakespeare's Texts
Account of an Attempted Performance of The Comedy of Errors in Gesta Grayorum	50	(2)
1595
Stationers' Register Entry	52	(1)
Entry for Edward III
Possible Allusion to Richard III in Hoby's Letter to Cecil	53	(1)
Publications	53	(1)
Facsimile: Title page for The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York
Facsimile: Title page for The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine
Allusion to Shakespeare in Covell's Polimanteia	54	(1)
1596
A New Year's Performance of Titus Andronicus	55	(1)
Stationers' Register Entry	55	(1)
Entry for Venus and Adonis
Publications	55	(1)
Transcribed title pages for Venus and Adonis and Edward III
Facsimile: Hamnet Shakespeare's burial record
Box: The Price of a Play
John Shakespeare's Request for a Grant of Arms	56	(2)
Box: The Hierarchy of the Gentry
Writ of Attachment Requested against Shakespeare and Others	58	(1)
Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax	58	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Lodge's Wits Miserie	59	(1)
Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performance	60	(1)
1597
Shakespeare's Purchase of New Place	61	(2)
Shakespeare Confirms Ownership of New Place	63	(2)
Box: London's Mayor Requests a Ban on Plays Stationers' Register Entries	65	(1)
Stationers' Register Entries	65	(1)
Entries for Richard II and Richard III
Publications	66	(1)
Transcribed title page for Richard II
Facsimile: Title page for Richard III
Facsimile: Title page for Romeo and Juliet
Record Showing Shakespeare as a Tax Defaulter	66	(1)
Box: The Table of Contents of the Northumberland Manuscript
Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Court Performances	67	(1)
1598
Letter from Sturley to Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare	67	(4)
Shakespeare Listed as Hoarding Grain	71	(1)
Stationers' Register Entries	72	(1)
Entries for 1 Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice
Publications	72	(1)
Transcribed title pages for The Rape of Lucrece, Richard II, and Richard III
Facsimile: Title page for 1 Henry IV
Facsimile: Title page for Love's Labor's Lost
London Tax Indenture Listing Shakespeare	72	(1)
Letter from Richard Quiney to Shakespeare	73	(2)
Letter from Adrian to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare	75	(1)
Letter from Sturley to Richard Quiney Mentioning Shakespeare	75	(3)
Box: Blood Sports and Executions
Shakespeare Is Paid for a Load of Stone	78	(1)
Allen's Bill of Complaint Regarding The Theatre	78	(4)
Facsimile: Page from The Workes of Benjamin Jonson listing Shakespeare
Allusion to Shakespeare in Barnfield's The Encomion of Lady Pecunia	82	(1)
Allusion to Romeo and Juliet in Marston's The Scourge of Villanie	82	(1)
Allusions to Shakespeare and His Plays in Meres's Palladis Tamia	82	(4)
Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Tofte's Alba	86	(1)
Shakespeare Listed as a Tax Defaulter	86	(1)
The Lord Chamberlain's Men Paid for Performances	86	(1)
Harvey's Comments on Shakespeare	86	(1)
Shakespeare's Poetry Mocked in The First Part of the Return from Parnassus	87	(3)
Box: The Globe in Southwark
1599
Shakespeare Identified as a Sharer in the Globe	90	(5)
Further Details of Shakespeare's Share of the Globe	95	(1)
Possible Allusion to 1 Henry IV in Whyte's Letter to Sidney	96	(3)
Box: A Royal Edict on the Production of Plays
Brend's Property Inventory Listing Shakespeare	99	(1)
Platter Sees Julius Caesar	99	(1)
Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll	100	(1)
Publications	100	(1)
Transcribed title pages for Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet, 1 Henry IV, and The Passionate Pilgrime
Weever's Poem About Shakespeare in Epigrammes	100	(1)
Box: Shakespeare Cited on the Title Page of Pinner of Wakefield
John Shakespeare's Grant of Arms	101	(1)
Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances	102	(1)
1600
A Contract to Build the Fortune Theater	102	(2)
Stationers' Register Entries	104	(1)
Entries for As You Like It, Henry V, Much Ado about Nothing, 2 Henry IV, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice
Publications	104	(1)
Transcribed title pages for The Rape of Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, and The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of York and Lancaster
Facsimile: Title page for The Merchant of Venice
Facsimile: Title page for A Midsummer Night's Dream
Facsimile: Title page for Much Ado about Nothing
Facsimile: Title page for 2 Henry IV
Facsimile: Title page for Henry V
Allusion to 1 Henry IV in the Life of Sir John Oldcastle	105	(1)
The Publication of Englands Helicon	106	(1)
Shakespeare Listed on Exchequer Pipe Roll	107	(1)
Allusion to Justices Silence and Shallow in Percy's Letter	107	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Bodenham's Bel-vedere	107	(3)
Allusion to Falstaff in Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humor	110	(1)
Possible Allusions to Shakespeare and an Early Version of Macbeth in Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder	110	(2)
Allusions to Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in Lane's Tom Tel Troths Message	112	(1)
Allusion to the Globe in Rowlands's The Letting of Humours Blood	112	(1)
Allusion to Falstaff in a Letter from the Countess of Southampton to the Earl of Southampton	112	(1)
Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances	113	(1)
1601
A Performance of Richard II and the Essex Rebellion	113	(3)
Shakespeare and His Wife Named in Whittington's Will	116	(1)
John Shakespeare's Burial Record	116	(1)
The Publication of Chester's Love's Martyr	117	(1)
Allusions to Richard III and 1 Henry IV in The Whipping of the Satyre	117	(1)
Allusion to 1 Henry IV in Weever's The Mirror of Martyrs	117	(1)
Allusions to Shakespeare in The Returne From Pernassus	118	(4)
Allusion to Richard III in Marston's What You Will	122	(1)
Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances	122	(1)
1602
Stationers' Register Entries	122	(1)
Entries for The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1 and 2 Henry VI, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet
Publications	123	(1)
Transcriptions of the tide pages for Venus and Adonis, Henry V, and Richard III
Facsimile: Title page for The Merry Wives of Windsor
Manningham Sees Twelfth Night and Reports a Story about Shakespeare and Richard Burbage	124	(2)
The Shakespeare Coat of Arms Questioned	126	(1)
John Shakespeare Defended in the College of Arms	126	(1)
Deed of Conveyance for Land in Stratford	126	(3)
Hercules Underhill Acknowledges Shakespeare's Ownership of New Place	129	(2)
Box: The Swan and the Other Theaters of London
Shakespeare Buys a Cottage in Chapel Lane	131	(1)
Richard Vennar Causes a Scandal at the Swan	132	(1)
Box: John Chamberlain's Account of the Vennar Incident
Allusions to The Comedy of Errors and Justice Shallow in Dekker's Satiro-mastix	133	(1)
Shakespeare's Company Paid for Court Performances	134	(1)
1603
Stationers' Register Entries	134	(1)
Entries for Troilus and Cressida, Richard II, Richard III, and 1 Henry IV
Facsimile: Title page for Hamlet
Box: The First Quarto of Hamlet
Allusion to Shakespeare in Chettle's Englandes Mourning Garment	134	(2)
Allusion to Shakespeare in ``A mournefull Dittie''	136	(1)
The Jacobean Years: April 1603-1616	137	(116)
1603
Shakespeare's Company Becomes the King's Men	138	(1)
Box: A Stationer's Record of Shakespeare's Plays
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	139	(2)
Possible Allusions to The Rape of Lucrece and Two Plays in Saint Marie Magdalens Conversion	141	(1)
Shakespeare Named in Camden's ``Certaine Poemes''	141	(1)
Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Microcosmos	142	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	142	(1)
1604
Possible Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Carleton's Letter to Chamberlain	143	(2)
Box: Satan at the Globe
The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform	145	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	145	(1)
The King's Men Congratulated in Dugdale's The Time Triumphant	146	(1)
Allusion to Love's Labor's Lost in Cope's Letter to Cecil	146	(1)
Box and Facsimile: The King's Men in the Coronation Procession
The King's Men Paid for Attendance on the Spanish Ambassador	146	(1)
Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor	146	(1)
Shakespeare's Involvement in Belott's Suit against Mountjoy	146	(5)
Shakespeare's Suit against Rogers	151	(1)
Publications	152	(1)
Transcription of the title page for 1 Henry IV
Facsimile: Title page for Hamlet
Allusion to Shakespeare in Cooke's Epigrames	153	(1)
Allusion to The Comedy of Errors in Dekker's The Honest Whore	153	(1)
Allusions to Falstaff and The Comedy of Errors in The Meeting of Gallants	153	(1)
Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton's Father Hubburds Tales	154	(1)
Allusion to Falstaff in Persons's Of Three Conversions of England	155	(1)
Allusions to Shakespeare and Hamlet in Scoloker's Daiphantus	155	(2)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	157	(1)
1605
Publications	158	(1)
Transcription of the title page for Richard III
Facsimile: Title page for The London Prodigall
Shakespeare Named in Phillips's Will	158	(1)
Shakespeare Leases the Stratford Tithes	158	(7)
Hubaud's Bond to Shakespeare	165	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Poulet's Letter to Vincent	165	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Ratseis Ghost	166	(2)
Allusion to 2 Henry IV in Breton's A Poste with a Packet of madde Letters	168	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Eastward Hoe	168	(1)
Possible Allusion to The Rape of Lucrece in The Strange Fortune of Alerane	169	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Smith's Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia	169	(2)
Allusion to Justice Shallow in Woodhouse's The Flea	171	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	171	(2)
1606
Shakespeare Listed in Hubaud's Inventory	173	(1)
The Globe Ordered to Repair Its Sewers	173	(1)
Box: A Statute on Blasphemy
Shakespeare Listed in Survey of Rowington Manor	173	(1)
Allusion to Richard III in Barnes's Foure Bookes of Offices	173	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	174	(1)
1607
Stationers' Register Entries	174	(1)
Entries for Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost, The Taming of a Shrew, Hamlet, and King Lear
Publications	174	(1)
Transcriptions of title pages for The Taming of a Shrew, The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis
Raworth Sanctioned for Printing Venus and Adonis	174	(1)
Susanna Shakespeare's Marriage to John Hall	175	(1)
Edward Shakespeare's Burial Record	175	(1)
Edmund Shakespeare's Burial Record	175	(1)
Allusion to Venus and Adonis in The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange	175	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Barksted's Mirrha The Mother of Adonis	176	(1)
Possible Allusions to Richard III and Twelfth Night in Dekker's A Knights Conjuring	177	(2)
Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker and Webster's West-ward Hoe	179	(1)
Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele	179	(1)
Allusion to A Midsummer Night's Dream in Sharpham's The Fleire	179	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	180	(1)
Shipboard Performances of Richard II and Hamlet	180	(1)
Box: Playwrights as Directors
1608
Elizabeth Hall's Baptismal Record	180	(1)
Stationers' Register Entries	181	(1)
Entries for A Yorkshire Tragedy, Pericles, and Antony and Cleopatra
Publications	181	(1)
Transcribed title pages for 1 Henry IV, Richard II, and Venus and Adonis
Facsimile: Title page for King Lear
Facsimile: Title page for A Yorkshire Tragedy
Allusion to Performances of Shakespeare's Play in Wilkins's The Painfull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre	182	(1)
Shakespeare's Lease for the Blackfriar's Theater	182	(4)
Mary Shakespeare's Burial Record	186	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Armin's A Nest of Ninnies	186	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker's The Dead Tearme	187	(1)
Allusion to Hamlet in Dekker's Lanthorne and Candle-light	188	(2)
Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Machin and Markham's The Dumbe Knight	190	(1)
Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters	190	(1)
The Venetian Ambassador Attends a Performance of Pericles	190	(1)
Possible Allusion to Anne Hathaway	190	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	191	(1)
Shakespeare's Suit against Addenbrooke	191	(4)
1609
Stationers' Register Entries	195	(1)
Entries for Troilus and Cressida and Sonnets
Publications	195	(1)
Transcribed title page for Romeo and Juliet
Facsimile: Title page and dedication page for Shakespeare's Sonnets
Facsimile: Title page for Troilus and Cressida
Facsimile: Title page for Pericles
Preface to The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid	195	(1)
Alleyn Buys a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets	196	(1)
Greene Stays at New Place	196	(1)
Pericles and King Lear Performed at Gowthwaite Hall	196	(1)
Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in Davies's Humours Heav'n on Earth	197	(1)
Possible Allusion to Julius Caesar in Everie Woman in her Humor	198	(1)
Possible Allusion to Pericles in Pimlyco	198	(1)
Possible Allusion to The Taming of the Shrew in A whole crew of kind Gossips	199	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Being Unable to Perform	200	(1)
1610
Publication	200	(1)
Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis
The Prince of Wirtemberg Sees Othello at the Globe	200	(1)
Jackson sees Othello in Oxford	201	(1)
Allusion to the Globe in Heath's Two Centuries Of Epigrammes	201	(1)
Allusion to Falstaff in Sharpe's More Fooles Yet	202	(1)
Forman Sees Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale	202	(4)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	206	(1)
1611
Publications	206	(1)
Transcribed title pages for Hamlet, Pericles, and Titus Andronicus
Facsimile: Title page for King John
Shakespeare's Land Purchase Confirmed	206	(1)
Shakespeare Named in Stratford Highway Bill	207	(1)
Shakespeare Listed in Johnson's Inventory	207	(1)
Bill of Complaint Regarding the Stratford Tithes	208	(1)
Allusion to the Globe in Cooke's Greene's Tu quoque	208	(1)
Poem about Shakespeare and an Allusion to Venus and Adonis in Davies's The Scourge of Folly	209	(1)
Allusion to Falstaff in Field's Amends for Ladies	209	(1)
Allusion to Falstaff in Speed's The History of Great Britaine	210	(1)
The Master of the Revels' Account of Plays Performed	210	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	211	(1)
Harington's List of Shakespeare's Plays	211	(2)
1612
Gilbert Shakespeare's Burial Record	213	(1)
Vaux's Complaint about an Incident at the Globe	213	(2)
Publications	215	(1)
Transcribed title pages for Richard III and The Passionate Pilgrim
Facsimile: Tide page for A Funerall Elegy
Allusions to Shakespeare and Henry V in Heywood's An Apology Far Actors	215	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Webster's Preface to The White Divel	216	(1)
1613
Richard Shakespeare's Burial Record	217	(1)
Publications	217	(1)
Transcribed title pages for 1 Henry IV and Thomas Cromwell
Shakespeare's Purchase of the Blackfriar's Gatehouse	217	(2)
Shakespeare Mortgages the Blackfriar's Gatehouse	219	(2)
Shakespeare and Burbage Paid for Impresa	221	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	221	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Digges's Inscription in de Vega's Rimas	222	(1)
Account of the Burning of the Globe in Lorkin's Letter to Puckering	222	(1)
Account of the Burning of the Globe in Wotton's Letter to Bacon	222	(1)
Account of the Burning of the Globe in Bluett's Letter to Weeks	223	(1)
Account of the Burning of the Globe in Chamberlain's Letter to Winwood	223	(1)
Account of the Burning and Rebuilding of the Globe in The Annales	223	(1)
Report of the Burning of the Globe in The Abridgement of the English Chronicle	224	(1)
Allusion to the Burning of the Globe in Taylor's A nest of Epigrams	224	(1)
Allusion to the Globe in Taylor's The Water Mens Suit	224	(3)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	227	(1)
Shakespeare Named in the Will of John Combe	227	(1)
1614
Rights to Publish The Rape of Lucrece Transferred	227	(1)
Allusion to the Rebuilt Globe in Chamberlain's Letter to Carleton	227	(1)
A Preacher Is Entertained at New Place	228	(1)
Publication	228	(1)
Transcribed title page for Englands Helicon
Possible Allusion to Richard III in Brooke's The Ghost Of Richard The Third	228	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in Camden's Remaines	229	(1)
Allusions to Plays in Johnson's Preface to Bartholomew Fayre	230	(2)
Allusion to Hamlet in Scott's The Philosopher's Banquet	232	(1)
Allusion to Pericles in Tailor's The Hogge Hath Lost His Pearle	232	(1)
Porter's Epigram on Shakespeare	233	(1)
Epigram on Shakespeare in Freeman's Rubbe, And a great Cast	233	(1)
Shakespeare's Possible Involvement in an Enclosure Effort	233	(2)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	235	(1)
1615
Publication	236	(1)
Transcribed title page for Richard II
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	236	(1)
Allusion to Shakespeare in F.B.'s Poem	236	(1)
Possible Allusion to Shakespeare in The New Metamorphosis	236	(2)
Shakespeare Named in Howes and Stow's The Annales	238	(1)
Shakespeare's Suit against Bacon	238	(1)
1616
Shakespeare Named in Bolton's Draft for Hypercritica	239	(1)
Judith Shakespeare's Marriage to Thomas Quiney	239	(1)
The King's Men Paid for Court Performances	240	(1)
Fascimile: William Shakespeare's Burial Record
Shakespeare's Epitaphs	240	(1)
Shakespeare's Will	240	(9)
Transcriptions and facsimile
Publication	249	(1)
Transcribed title page for The Rape of Lucrece
Possible Allusions to Antony'' and Cleopatra and The Comedy of Errors in Anton's The Philosophers Satyrs	249	(2)
Allusion to Richard III in Breton's The Good And The Badde	251	(1)
Allusions to Hamlet and The Rape of Lucrece in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Scornful Ladie	251	(1)
Basse's Poem about Shakespeare	251	(2)
Shakespeare's Posthumous Reputation and the First Folio	253	(60)
1617
Publication	253	(1)
Transcribed title page for Venus and Adonis
1619
Stationers' Register Entry	253	(1)
Entry for The Merchant of Venice
Publications	253	(1)
Transcribed title pages for Henry V, King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Whole Contention between the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and York, and A Yorkshire Tragedy
Allusions to Shakespeare in Jonson's ``Conversations with Drummond''	254	(1)
1620
Publication	255	(1)
Title page of Venus and Adonis
1621
Stationers' Register Entry	255	(1)
Entry for Othello
1622
Publications	255	(1)
Transcribed title pages for Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and 1 Henry IV
Facsimile: Title page for Othello
Epistle to the Reader from Othello	256	(1)
1623
Anne Hathaway's Burial	256	(1)
Stationers' Register Entries	256	(1)
Entries for plays to be included in the First Folio
Preliminary Material in the First Folio	257	(8)
Facsimile: Title page for the First Folio
Facsimile: Jonson's note ``To the Reader''
Facsimile and transcription: ``To the great Variety of Readers''
Dedication
Commendatory Verses
Jonson
Hugh Holland
L. Digges
I.M.Digges
Facsimile: List of actors
Facsimile: Table of Contents
Facsimile: First page of The Tempest
Facsimile: Last page of Othello
Facsimile: Last page of Henry VIII
Facsimile: Page from Hamlet
Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries	265	(1)
Epistle to the Reader and Commendatory Verse from Poems: Written	265	(3)
Wil. Shakespeare
Entries from Ward's Diary	268	(1)
Facsimile: Title page for The Taming of the Shrew
Aubrey's Lives	269	(6)
Appendix
Eyewitnesses and Historians	275	(3)
Platter's Observations (1599)
Baron Waldstein's Diary (1600)
Letter of Ottaviano Lotti (1605)
Letter of John Chamberlain (1608)
Letter of Antimo Galli (1613)
Politics and the Theater	278	(3)
Letter of Dudley Carleton (1605)
Letter of John Harington (1606)
Regulations for the Theater	281	(4)
The Book of Common Prayer (1559)
An Act of the Privy Council (1600)
An Act of the Privy Council (1601)
A Privy Council Warrant (1604)
A Letter Attributed to George Chapman (1608)
George Buc's License to Perform The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611)
Prologues, Epilogues, Epistles to Readers, and Excerpts from Plays	285	(4)
Marston's Letter to the Reader of The Malcontent (1604)
Commendatory Poem for Jonson's Sejanus (1605)
Prologue and Epilogue for Marston's Parasitaster (1606)
Note to the Reader of Marston's The Wonder of women (1606)
Heywood's Preface to The Rape of Lucrece (1608)
Jonson's Prefatory Poem for Epicoene (1609)
Jonson on the Audience in The Masque of Queenes (1609)
Address to the Reader and Prologue for The Roaring Girle (1611)
Epigrams and Satires	289	(15)
Greene's Francescos Fortunes (1590)
Greenes, Groats-worth of witte (1592)
Nashe's Christs Teares Over Jerusalem (1593)
Rankins's Seaven Satyes Applyed to the Weeke (1598)
Davies and Marlowe's Epigrammes and Elegies (1599)
Weever's Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion (1599)
Rowlands's The Letting Of Humours Blood In The Head-Vaine (1600)
A Translation of Dedekind's Grobianus et Grobiana (1605)
Merrie Conceited Jests of George Peele Gentleman (1607)
Dekker's The Guls Horne-booke (1609)
Parrot's Laquei ridiculosi (1613)
Wither's Abuses Stript, And Whipt (1613)
Breton's I would, And would not (1614)
Overbury's New And Choice Characters (1615)
Stephens's Satyrical Essayes Characters And Others (1615)
Jonson's Epigrammes (1616)
Anti-Theatrical Tracts	304	(2)
Stubbes's ``Of Stage-playes and Enterluds, with their wickednes'' (1583)
Rainolds's Th'overthrow of Stage-Playes (1599)
Vaughan's The Golden grove (1600)
A Defense of Actors	306	(4)
Heywood's An Apology for Actors (1612)
Practical Matters	310	(2)
Inventories of Theatrical Costumes and Properties (1598)
Serlio's The Second Booke of Architecture (1611)
Rid's The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine (1612)
Education	312	(1)
Letter of Gager (1592)
Checklist of Further Reading	313	(6)
Cumulative Index	319