Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592

PRINCE. Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly w...

In considering the conditions of Shakespeare's life at the beginning of his career in London, and his application to the College of Heralds for a grant of arms in 1596, it must...

As we have well-attested evidence that Shakespeare was connected with the interests of James Burbage and his sons from 1594 until the end of his London career, it is usually, an...

A few months after the publication of Greene's _A Groatsworth of Wit_, Henry Chettle issued a book entitled _Kinde Heartes Dreame_, to which he prefaced an apology for publishin...

"What porridge had John Keats?" asks Browning. So may we well inquire of what blood was Shakespeare? What nice conjunction of racial strains produced this unerring judgment, thi...

The three parts of _Henry VI._ and their originals are of interest to Shakespearean students as marking the beginning of a phase of English historical drama, afterwards develope...

Almost from the time he first began to operate the Shoreditch Theatre in 1576, until his death in 1597, James Burbage had trouble from one source or another regarding his ventur...

The most interesting and important fifteen years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those between 1588 and 1603, within which limit all of Shakespeare...

Probably the most remarkable and interesting æsthetic study of a single Shakespearean character ever produced is Maurice Morgann's _Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John F...

FIRST BEAD. The constables have delivered her over to me: and she shall have whipping-cheer enough I warrant her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.