Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175) and index.
Contents:
William Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's Stratford friends -- Richard Quiney -- Hamnet Sadler -- Richard Tyler -- Richard Field -- The Combe family -- The Nash family -- William Reynolds -- Thomas Greene -- John Hall -- Thomas Russell -- Alexander Aspinall -- Julius Shaw -- John Robinson -- Francis Collins -- William Walker -- Shakespeare's London friends -- Friends of a sort: Shakespeare and royalty -- Queen Elizabeth I -- King James I -- Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton -- Emilia Bassano Lanier -- The Earls and the Countess of Pembroke -- Lady Warwick -- Maria Mountjoy -- William Johnson -- Michael Drayton -- The Davenant family -- Friends at work -- Philip Henslowe -- Edward Alleyn -- Christopher Marlowe -- Ben Jonson -- The collaborators -- Thomas Dekker -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- Francis Beaumont -- John Fletcher -- Shareholders and housekeepers -- Thomas Pope -- William Sly -- Cuthbert Burbage -- Will Kempe -- Augustine Phillips -- Richard Burbage -- John Heminges -- Henry Condell -- The wives -- In Strartford: Judith Sadler, Bess Quiney, Ann Digges Russell, Ann Shaw Aspinall -- In London: Jacqueline Vautrollier Field, Rebecca Heminges, Elizabeth Condell, Winifred Burbage -- The first folio.
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