Includes index

Ancestry -- Parentage -- Boyhood and early environment -- Schooling -- Apprenticeship and marriage -- Departure from Stratford -- The rise of professionalism in the drama -- Arrival in London, and labors for the Pembroke's company -- Period of non-dramatic composition -- With the Lord Chamberlain's company -- London residences and actor friends -- Labors for the Chamberlain's men, 1594-98 -- Rise in fame and in social dignity -- The erection of new playhouses : the Globe -- Joyous comedies : Hamlet -- The Essex rebellion, and the war of the theatres -- The passionate pilgrim and love's martyr -- Worcester's men : Troilus and Cressida -- The coming of James : royal favor -- Personal affairs, 1602-07 -- Dramatic labors, 1607-09 : acquisition of blackfriars -- Tragi-comedy and romance -- Last labors for the king's men -- Retirement to Stratford -- Death and burial -- Descendants -- The making of the playhouse manuscripts -- The printing of the Quartos -- The attempted collection of 1619 -- The first folio

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