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Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time
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- SHAKESPEARE THE BOY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Part I HIS NATIVE TOWN AND NEIGHBORHOOD
- WARWICKSHIRE
- WARWICK CASTLE AND SAINT MARY'S CHURCH.
- WARWICK IN HISTORY.
- GUY OF WARWICK.
- KENILWORTH CASTLE.
- COVENTRY.
- CHARLECOTE HALL.
- STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
- THE EARLY HISTORY OF STRATFORD.
- THE STRATFORD GUILD.
- THE STRATFORD CORPORATION.
- THE TOPOGRAPHY OF STRATFORD.
- Part II. HIS HOME LIFE
- THE DWELLING-HOUSES OF THE TIME
- THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
- FOOD AND DRINK.
- THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
- INDOOR AMUSEMENTS.
- POPULAR BOOKS.
- STORY-TELLING.
- CHRISTENINGS.
- SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH BIRTH AND BAPTISM.
- CHARMS AND AMULETS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Part III. AT SCHOOL
- THE STRATFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
- WHAT SHAKESPEARE LEARNT AT SCHOOL.
- THE NEGLECT OF ENGLISH.
- SCHOOL LIFE IN SHAKESPEARE'S DAY.
- SCHOOL MORALS.
- SCHOOL DISCIPLINE.
- WHEN WILLIAM LEFT SCHOOL.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Part IV. GAMES AND SPORTS
- BOYISH GAMES
- SWIMMING AND FISHING.
- BEAR-BAITING.
- COCK-FIGHTING AND COCK-THROWING.
- OTHER CRUEL SPORTS.
- ARCHERY.
- HUNTING
- FOWLING.
- HAWKING.
- THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.
- Part V. HOLIDAYS, FESTIVALS, FAIRS, ETC
- SAINT GEORGE'S DAY.
- EASTER.
- THE PERAMBULATION OF THE PARISH.
- MAY-DAY AND THE MORRIS-DANCE.
- WHITSUNTIDE.
- MIDSUMMER EVE.
- CHRISTMAS.
- SHEEP-SHEARING.
- HARVEST-HOME.
- MARKETS AND FAIRS.
- RURAL OUTINGS.
- NOTES
- ADDENDA
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX
- SCHOOL COURSES IN SHAKESPEARE
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