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Title: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidchroniclehistory00flea">A chronicle history of the life and work of William Shakespeare, player, poet, and playmaker</a>
Year: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1886">1886</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s</a>)
Authors: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorFleay__Frederick_Gard__1831_1909">Fleay, Frederick Gard, 1831-1909</a>
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;Chief praise be this :—he wTote no line That could cause pain in childlike souls. CONTENTS. H PAGE INTRODUCTION I SECTION I. THE PUBLIC CAREER OF SHAKESPEARE .... 7 SECTION II. THE PERSONAL CONNECTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE WITH OTHER POETS . 73 SECTION III. ANNALS ON WHICH THE PRECEDING SECTIONS ARE FOUNDED 83 SECTION IV. THE CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF SHAKESPEARES PLAYS 175 SECTION V. ON THE MARLOWE GROUP OF PLAYS 255 SECTION VI. ON THE PLAYS BY OTHER AUTHORS ACTED BY SHAKE-SPEARES COMPANY 284 viii CONTENTS. SECTION VII. PAGE EARLY ENGLISH PLAYS IN GERMANY 307 \ APPENDIX 319 TABLES 324 I. QUARTO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARES PLAYS . . 324II. QUARTO EDITIONS OF OTHER PLAYS PERFORMED BY SHAKESPEARES COMPANY 326 III. NUMBER OF PERFORMANCES AT COURT, I584-1616 . 327 IV. ENTRIES OF PLAYS IN THE STATIONERS REGISTERS, I584-164O 328 V. TRANSFERS OF COPYRIGHT IN PLAYS, I584-164O . 350SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE OF MOSELEYS ENTRIES IN 1653 AND 1660, AND WARBURTONs LIST . . 358 INDEX 361 NOTE ON ETCHINGS 364
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o X < a.en < INTRODUCTION. It is due to the reader of a new work on a sub-ject already so often handled as the Life of Shake-speare to tell him at the outset what he may expectto find therein, and to state the reasons for whichI have thought it worth while to devote nearly tenyears to its production. Previous investigators- havewith industrious minuteness already ascertainedfor us every detail that can reasonably be expectedof Shakespeares private life. With laboriousresearch they have raked together the records ofpetty debts, of parish assessments, of scandaloustraditions, of idle gossip; and they have shownbeyond doubt that Shakespeare was born at Strat-ford-on-Avon, was married, had three children, lefthis home, made money as an actor and play-makerin London, returned to his native town, invested hissavings there, and died. I do not think that whenstript of verbiage, and what the slang of the day 2 INTRODUCTION. calls padding, much more than this can be claimedas the result o

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