"A series of papers, new and old, all bearing to some extent upon our great poet ... The introduction of some of the articles under the title may be criticised." cf. Pref Errata slip Shakespeare's industry.--Shakespeare's treatment of his originals.--The Amleth of the story and the Hamlet of the stage.--Hamlet and Macbeth, an intended contrast.--The Scottish and English Macbeth.--Is Lady Macbeth really a "fiendlike queen"?--Sir Thomas Lucy not the original of Justice Shallow.--The taming of the shrew.--The Kenilworth festivities.--The midsummer night's dream.--Captain Cox's 'Booke of fortune.'--The Italian and English Books of fortune.--Elizabethan stage scenery.--The earliest official record of Shakespeare's name.--The introduction of Shakespeare to Queen Elizabeth.--Shakespeare and war.--Shakespeare's legal transactions.--Shakespeare, homager of Rowington.--Shakespeare of the court.--The Paradise of dainty devices.--The metrical Psalms and the Court of Venus.--The old and "Newe Court of Venus."--Sir Thomas Wyat and the "Newe Court of Venus."--Terminal notes: List of Scottish kings. The Oxford interlude of Banquo. Quotations from Stewart's metrical history. Sir Thomas Wyat's poems. Echoes