beginning of the last Century. 103 40. Stratford Church-West End Note on the Stratford Registers....... CHAPTER XI.-LIVING IN THE PAST. 45. Guy's Cliff in the 17th Century 49. Ancient Statue of Guy at Guy's Cliff... 46. Chapel at Guy's Cliff ...... 147 50. St. Mary's Hall, Court Front 46.*Tomb of King John at Worcester .. 51. Warwick Castle, from the Island .... ... 151 CHAPTER XII.-YORK AND LANCASTER. 53. St. Mary's Hall, Interior ........ 57. St. Mary's Hall, Street Front... 54. Battle Field at Shrewsbury (G. F. SARGENT)....... 165 58. Tewksbury ... 167 CHAPTER XIII.-RUINS, NOT OF TIME. 60. Evesham. The Bell Tower .... 64. Bengeworth Church, seen through the Arch of the CHAPTER XIV.-SOCIAL HOURS. 74. Charlcote House, from the Avon....... 75. House in Charlcote Village 67. Marl Cliffs, uear Bidford. 197 76. Charlcote House, from the Garden... 73. Charlcote House, from the Avenue .. 209 82. Map of the Neighbourhood of ford CHAPTER XVII.—THE FIRST RIDE TO LONDON. 106. Christchurch in the Sixteenth Century ..... 103. Entries in Stratford Register (fac-similes) 107. Ancient View of St. James's and Westminster..... 290 104. Baliol College in the Sixteenth Century 108. London from Blackfriars, in the Sixteenth Century 291 105. Divinity Schools ditto... ..... 288 109. Shakspere's Visions of Maturity ....... 293 300 CHAPTER I.-A NEW PLAY. 110. A Play at the Blackfriars CHAPTER III,_THE MIGHTY HEART. CHAPTER IV.-HOW CHANCES IT THEY TRAVEL 124. Richmond Palace 128. Ancient View of Cambridge ... ........ 355 367 132. Seal and Autograph of Susanna Hall 131. Entry in Parish Register of Stratford of the Burial 133. Autograph of Judith Shakspere...... Note on Marston's Malecontent' 452 ...... 423 CHAPTER VIII.-DID SHAKSPERE VISIT SCOTLAND? 148. Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century 152. James the Sixth of Scotland, and First of England 445 159. Berwick 440 467 CHAPTER IX.-LABOURS AND REWARDS. 161. Hall of the Middle Temple...... 162. Interior of the Temple Church 168. Funeral of Queen Elizabeth.. 163. Autograph of William Combe 464 169. William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.. 464 170. Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery 165. Fac-simile of Conveyance.. 464 171. Wolsey's Hall, Hampton Court.. 173. The Garden of New Place.... 477 178. Signature of Dr. Hall. 174. Monument of Sir Thomas Lucy .............. 486 179. House in the High Street, Stratford 176. Ancient Hall in the College.. 490 181. Foot-bridge above the Mill 177. Fac-simile of entry in Parish Register of the Mar- 182. Stratford Church riage of John Hall and Susanna Shaks pere 491 183. The fabricated “ New Place Note on the copy of a Letter signed H. S., preserved at Bridgewater House.... CHAPTER XI.-GLIMPSES OF LONDON. 187. William Alexander, Earl of Stirling .............. 509 192. Nathaniel Field Note on the Conveyance to Shakspere in 1613 .. 504 .... 520 ............. 526 CHAPTER XII.—THE LAST BIRTHDAY. 194. Chancel of Stratford Church 201. Fac-simile of entry in Parish. Register of the burial 195. Monument of John Combe... of Anne Shakspere.... 536 196. Leicester's Hospital, Warwick 528 202. Ditto of the burial of Susanna Hall.. 536 197. Weston Church 528 203. Ditto of the burial of Judith Quiney 537 198. Fac-simile of entry in Parish Register of the Mar. 204. Autograph of Eliza Barnard 537 540 199. Signature of Thomas Quiney 529 206. Shakspere from Roubiliac's Monument.... 542 200. Monument at Stratford 532 207. Shakspere's bust from the Monument at Stratford 544 Shakspere's Will 532 Note on some Points in Shakspere's Will. ....... 535 Note on Autographs.... ...... 538 Table of Plays..... 541 Note on the Portraits of Shakspere .......... 542 ADVERTISEMENT. The two mottos which face the title-page express the principle upon which this · Biography' has been written. That from Steevens shows, with a slight exaggeration of its author, how scanty are the materials for a Life of Shakspere, properly so called. Indeed, every Life of him must, to a certain extent, be conjectural; and all the Lives that have been written are conjectural. Our Biography' is only so far more conjectural than any other, as regards the form which it assumes ; by which it has been endeavoured to associate Shakspere with the circumstances around him, in a manner which may fix them in the mind of the reader by exciting his interest. What we have proposed thus to do is shown in the second motto, from Mr. Carlyle's admirable article on Dr. Johnson, we having ventured to substitute the name of “Shakspere” for that of “ Johnson.” We might have accomplished the same end by writing a short notice of Shakspere, accompanied by a History of Manners and Customs, a History of the Stage, &c., &c. The form we have adopted may appear fanciful, but the narrative essentially rests upon facts. July, 1843. |
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