Preface |
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To The Reader |
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Introduction |
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3 | (1) |
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The Illustrations and Documents |
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4 | (3) |
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Three Troublesome Topics: Terminology, Modernization, and Money |
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7 | (1) |
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Shakespeare, ``Shakespeare,'' and the Problem of Authorship |
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12 | (3) |
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15 | (4) |
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19 | (3) |
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22 | (2) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (3) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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The House Known as Shakespeare's Birthplace |
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Record of Shakespeare's Baptism |
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29 | (2) |
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Map of Stratford-upon-Avon |
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31 | (1) |
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Francis Meres, From Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury |
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32 | (1) |
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The Royal License for Shakespeare's Company |
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33 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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John Ward, Vicar of Stratford, From His Diary |
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34 | (1) |
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Detail from the ``Agas'' Map of London (With Shakespeare's Lodging Indicated) |
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34 | (2) |
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``To What End Are All These Words?'': Shakespeare's Dramatic Language |
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36 | (43) |
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38 | (4) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (3) |
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The Forms of Dramatic Language |
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47 | (8) |
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55 | (4) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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Desiderius Erasmus, From the Foreword to the Third Edition of the Latin New Testament |
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59 | (1) |
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From The Art of Rhetoric (Of Composition) |
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60 | (2) |
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62 | (1) |
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From ``Of the Vanity of Words'' |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (2) |
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From The Art of Reason, Rightly Termed Witcraft |
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66 | (2) |
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From The Art of English Poesy |
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68 | (5) |
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From The Book of the Courtier |
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73 | (4) |
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Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose in Shakespeare's Plays |
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77 | (2) |
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Theater a la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama |
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79 | (30) |
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81 | (4) |
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85 | (5) |
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90 | (4) |
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94 | (3) |
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97 | (2) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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From The Defense of Poesy |
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99 | (1) |
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From The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (4) |
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Title Page of Richard III (First Quarto) |
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105 | (2) |
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From His Notes of a Conversation with Queen Elizabeth I about Richard II |
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107 | (1) |
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From His Preface to The Faithful Shepherdess |
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107 | (1) |
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From A Short View of Tragedy |
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108 | (1) |
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Performances, Playhouses, and Players |
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109 | (36) |
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Going to a Play, Circa 1595 |
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109 | (5) |
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114 | (6) |
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120 | (3) |
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The Theater and the Authorities |
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123 | (5) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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Map Showing the Playhouses in Shakespeare's Time |
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128 | (1) |
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Sketch Accompanying Lines from Titus Andronicus |
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128 | (1) |
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Inventory of Theatrical Costumes (From Henslowe's Papers) |
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129 | (3) |
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Remains of the Rose Playhouse |
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132 | (1) |
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Two Plans of the Rose Playhouse |
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133 | (1) |
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Illustration of the Second Globe |
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134 | (1) |
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Copy of De Witt's Sketch of the Swan Playhouse |
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135 | (2) |
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Detail from Long View of London |
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137 | (1) |
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Log of Plays from His Diary |
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137 | (3) |
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Testimony about a Performance of Richard II |
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140 | (1) |
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Record of King James's Payment to the King's Men |
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140 | (1) |
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From An Apology for Actors |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (2) |
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``I Loved My Books'': Shakespeare's Reading |
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145 | (49) |
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Shakespeare and the Classics |
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147 | (2) |
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149 | (5) |
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154 | (4) |
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158 | (5) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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From The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (5) |
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From Gli Hecatommithi (The Principal Source for Othello) |
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169 | (2) |
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Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio |
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From The Book of Common Prayer (The Order for the Burial of the Dead) |
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171 | (3) |
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174 | (4) |
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178 | (2) |
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From A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates (A Source for The Tempest) |
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180 | (2) |
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From Tamburlaine the Great |
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182 | (1) |
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Two Sonnets from Astrophil and Stella |
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183 | (1) |
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Two Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus |
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184 | (1) |
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From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Second Edition) |
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185 | (1) |
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From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Translated by Sir Thomas North) |
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186 | (1) |
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Countess of Pembroke, From Her Translation of The Tragedy of Antonie Robert Garnier |
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187 | (3) |
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From Metamorphoses (Translated by Arthur Golding) |
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190 | (4) |
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194 | (25) |
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What Is a Shakespearean Text? |
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195 | (3) |
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From Pen to Press: The Printing of Renaissance Plays |
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198 | (3) |
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Illustration of the Folding and Printing Process |
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200 | (1) |
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Shakespeare's Plays in Print |
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201 | (5) |
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Some Examples of Textual Instability |
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206 | (4) |
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Shakespeare's Texts and the General Reader |
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210 | (1) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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Title Page of Titus Andronicus (First Quarto) |
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211 | (1) |
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Title Page and Catalogue of the First Folio |
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212 | (2) |
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Illustration of a Seventeenth-Century Print Shop (Frontispiece to Edmund Rive's Twelve Rules Introducing to the Art of Latin) |
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214 | (1) |
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Facsimile of the Last Page of King Lear (First Quarto) |
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215 | (1) |
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Facsimile of ``To be or not to be'' from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (First Quarto) |
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216 | (1) |
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Facsimile of ``To be or not to be'' from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1623 Folio) |
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217 | (1) |
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A Comparison of the Work of Compositors A and B on the 1623 Folio |
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218 | (1) |
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Town and Country: Life in Shakespeare's England |
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219 | (34) |
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221 | (3) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (3) |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (2) |
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233 | (4) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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From The Description of England (The Conditions of English Inns and Overnight Travel) |
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237 | (1) |
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From Survey of London (The Location of Tradesmen in London) |
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238 | (1) |
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From ``The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London'' |
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239 | (2) |
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From Travels in England (The Thames River) |
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241 | (1) |
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From Journey through England and Scotland (A Visit to the Bearbaiting Arena) |
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241 | (1) |
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From Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (The Brothels of Suburban London) |
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242 | (1) |
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From The English Husbandman (Rural Domestic Architecture and Interior Design) |
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243 | (2) |
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From A Target for Tillage |
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245 | (1) |
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From The Book of Husbandry (What Works a Wife Should Do) |
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246 | (2) |
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From The Description of England (Dining Customs) |
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248 | (1) |
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From Positions...for the Training Up of Children (Chapter 27, ``Of the Ball'') |
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248 | (2) |
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From The Description of England (Fashion) |
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250 | (2) |
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From A Delightful Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen |
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252 | (1) |
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Men and Women: Gender, Family, Society |
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253 | (50) |
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253 | (6) |
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259 | (4) |
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263 | (2) |
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265 | (4) |
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269 | (4) |
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273 | (4) |
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Conclusion: The Body Politic |
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277 | (1) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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278 | (1) |
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From Natural and Artificial Directions for Health |
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279 | (1) |
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279 | (2) |
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From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum |
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281 | (2) |
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From Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings |
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283 | (2) |
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From An Homily of the State of Matrimony |
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285 | (5) |
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From of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises |
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290 | (2) |
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From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government of Policy of the Realm of England (Of Children) |
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292 | (1) |
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From An Heptameron of Civil Discourses (Household Laws to Keep the Married in Love, Peace, and Amity) |
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292 | (1) |
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From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery |
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293 | (2) |
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295 | (1) |
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Excerpts from Conduct Books |
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295 | (1) |
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From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (Of Buggery or Sodomy) |
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296 | (2) |
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From The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love, or The Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganymede |
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298 | (1) |
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List of Royal Proclamations |
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299 | (2) |
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Royal Proclamation against Vagabonds and Unlawful Assemblies |
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301 | (1) |
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Edict Arranging for the Expulsion from England of Negroes and Blackamoors |
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302 | (1) |
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Politics and Religion: Early Modern Ideologies |
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303 | (50) |
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304 | (2) |
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306 | (2) |
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308 | (7) |
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The ``Ermine Portrait'' of Elizabeth I |
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309 | (1) |
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Portrait of James I, by Paul van Somer |
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310 | (5) |
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315 | (3) |
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318 | (4) |
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Shakespeare's Theater and the Problem of Authority |
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322 | (2) |
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The Stage and Its Opponents |
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324 | (2) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the Realm of England (Of Parliament and the Monarchy) |
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326 | (2) |
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328 | (1) |
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From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall |
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328 | (3) |
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Secret Letter to Sir Robert Cecil |
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331 | (1) |
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Letter to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
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332 | (1) |
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Letter Describing the Revels at King James's Court |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (3) |
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From His Diary (On a Dream about an Encounter with Queen Elizabeth) |
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339 | (1) |
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From An Admonition to the Parliament |
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340 | (3) |
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From the Catholics' Supplication and An Answer to the Catholics' Supplication |
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343 | (2) |
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From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion |
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345 | (4) |
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From Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity |
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349 | (2) |
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From The Anatomy of Abuses |
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351 | (2) |
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From Bracegirdle to Branagh: Shakespeare in Performance from 1660 to the Present |
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353 | (53) |
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Innovations, Technical and Theatrical |
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354 | (3) |
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357 | (6) |
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363 | (3) |
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Twentieth-Century Stages, Modern and Postmodern |
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366 | (10) |
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376 | (7) |
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Illustrations and Documents |
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David Garrick as King Lear (After a Painting by Benjamin Wilson) |
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383 | (1) |
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From The History of King Lear |
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383 | (3) |
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Three Lady Macbeths (Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, Judi Dench) |
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386 | (2) |
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388 | (1) |
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Playbill Advertising a Gala Performance of Julius Caesar (Featuring the Three Booth Brothers) |
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389 | (1) |
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Norman Wilkinson's Set Design for Twelfth Night |
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390 | (1) |
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Robert Edmond Jones's Set Design for John Barrymore's Hamlet (New York and London) |
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391 | (1) |
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John Barrymore's Script for Hamlet (Directed by Arthur Hopkins) |
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392 | (1) |
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Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (From The Examiner, January 21, 1816) |
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393 | (2) |
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Two Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Charles Kean, London; Peter Brook, Stratford-upon-Avon) |
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395 | (3) |
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Review of Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream (From Shakespeare Quarterly) |
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398 | (2) |
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Laurence Olivier as Henry V |
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400 | (1) |
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From He That Plays the King |
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401 | (4) |
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Titus (Directed by Julie Taymor) |
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405 | (1) |
Bibliography |
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406 | (16) |
Appendix: Shakespeare Resources on the Web |
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Index |
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