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Shakspere, Personal Recollections

by John A. Joyce

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4Facsimile Pages — Sweepstakes
  5. 5Chapter I — Birth. School Days. Shows
  6. 6Chapter II — Launched. Apprentice Boy. Ambition
  7. 7Chapter III — Farm Life. Sporting. Poaching on Lucy
  8. 8Chapter IV — In Search of Peace and Fortune
  9. 9Chapter V — London. Its Guilt and Glory
  10. 10Chapter VI — Taverns. Theatres. Variegated Society
  11. 11Chapter VII — Theatrical Drudgery. Compositions
  12. 12Chapter VIII — Growing Literary Renown. Royal Patrons
  13. 13Chapter IX — Bohemian Hours. Westminster Abbey. “Love’s Labor’s Lost”
  14. 14Chapter X — Queen Elizabeth. War. Shakspere in Ireland
  15. 15Chapter XI — Rural England. “Romeo and Juliet”
  16. 16Chapter XII — “Julius Cæsar”
  17. 17Chapter XIII — Two Tramps. By Land and Sea
  18. 18Chapter XIV — Windsor Park. “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
  19. 19Chapter XV — The Jew. Shylock. “Merchant of Venice”
  20. 20Chapter XVI — The Supernatural. “Hamlet”
  21. 21Chapter XVII — Death of Queen Elizabeth. Coronation of King James
  22. 22Chapter XVIII — Shakspere as Monologist. King James
  23. 23Chapter XIX — Stratford. Shakspere’s Death. Patriotism Down the Ages

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