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Frontispiece

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. STRATFORD-ON-AVON

CHAPTER II. THE POET'S YOUTH

CHAPTER III. NATURE ROUND STRATFORD AND SHOTTERY

CHAPTER IV. FIRST DAYS IN LONDON

CHAPTER V. SHAKESPEARE'S LONDON

CHAPTER VI. THE STAGE IN SHAKESPEARE'S DAY

CHAPTER VII. SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY PLAYS

CHAPTER VIII. THE ELIZABETHAN TAVERNS

CHAPTER IX. THE MIDDLE PERIOD

CHAPTER X. THE LATEST PLAYS

CHAPTER XI. BACK AGAIN IN STRATFORD

CHAPTER XII. THE POET'S DOMESTIC LIFE

CHAPTER XIII. STRATFORD AS IT WAS

CHAPTER XIV. THE CLOSE OF LIFE