The late Mr Shakespeare
Several years after Shakespeare's death, an actor who knew him as a boy attempts a biography. The result is a bawdy account filled with speculations, among them that Shakespeare was the product of a love affair between a vicar and Queen Elizabeth I
Novela histórica
398 pages ; 25 cm
9781559704694, 1559704691
40298516
In which Pickleherring takes his pen to tell of his first meeting with Mr Shakespeare
In which Pickleherring makes strides in a pair of lugged boots
Pickleherring's Acknowledgements
About John Shakespeare and the miller's daughter
How to spell Shakespeare and what a whittawer is
About the begetting of William Shakespeare
All the facts about Mr Shakespeare
Which is mostly about choughs but has no choughs in it
About the birth of Mr WS
What if Bretchgirdle was Shakespeare's father?
Of WS: his first word, & the otters
Was John Shakespeare John Falstaff?
How Shakespeare's mother played with him
What this book is doing
Shakespeare breeches
Pickleherring's room (in which he is writing this book)
The Man in the Moon, or Pickleherring in praise of country history
Positively the last word about whittawers
What if Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeare's mother?
The Shakespeare Arms
Pickleherring's Song
About the childhood ailments of William Shakespeare
About the great plague that was late in London
Bretchgirdle's cat
Of the games of William Shakespeare when he was young
The midwife Gertrude's tale
Of little WS and the cauldron of inspiration & science
Some tales that William Shakespeare told his mother
What Shakespeare learned at Stratford Grammar School
About Pompey Bum + Pickleherring's Shakespeare Test
Did Shakespeare go to school at Polesworth?
Why John Shakespeare liked to be called Jack
What Shakespeare saw when he looked under Clopton Bridge
About water
Of weeds and the original Ophelia
The revels at Kenilworth 9th July, 1575
More about Jenkins
John Shakespeare when sober
Jack Naps of Greece: his story
Jack Naps of Greece: his story concluded
Flute
The speech that Shakespeare made when he killed a calf
In which there is a death, and a birth, and an earthquake
Pickleherring's peep-hole
About silk stockings
How Shakespeare went to teach in Lancashire
How Shakespeare went to sea with Francis Drake
How Shakespeare went to work in a lawyer's office
How Shakespeare went to the wars & sailed the seas (again?) & took a long walk in the Forest of Arden & captured a castle
Pickleherring's confession
In which Anne Hathaway
Shakespeare's other Anne
Pickleherring's nine muses
In which John Shakespeare plays Shylock
In which Lucy is lousy
Shakespeare's Canopy, or Pickleherring in dispraise of wine
Pickleherring's Poetics (some more about this book)
What Shakespeare did when first he came to London
In which Pickleherring eats an egg in honour of Mr Shakespeare
In which Pickleherring speculates concerning the meaning of eggs
About Mr Richard Field: another ruminating gentleman
About a great reckoning in a little room
More
A look at William Shakespeare
Pickleherring's list of the world's lost plays
Love's Labour's Won
Was Shakespeare raped?
All about Rizley
A Private Observation
In which Pickleherring presents a lost sonnet by William Shakespeare
Who was Shakespeare's Friend?
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 1
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 2
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 3
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 4
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 5
Of eggs and Richard Burbage
A few more facts and fictions about William Shakespeare
In which boys will be girls
In which Mr Shakespeare is mocked by his fellows
Pickleherring's poem
In which Mr Shakespeare plays a game at tennis
What Shakespeare got from Florio + a word about George Peele
Deaths, etc
'Mrs Lines and Mr Barkworth'
Shakespeare in Scotland & other witchcrafts
About Comfort Ballantine
In which Pickleherring plays Cleopatra at the house in St John Street
Tom o' Bedlam's Song
In which William Shakespeare returns to Stratford
Bottoms
Some sayings of William Shakespeare
A word about John Spencer Stockfish
Pickleherring's list of things despaired of
Shakespeare's Will (with notes by Pickleherring)
Fire
The day Shakespeare died (with his last words, etc.)
About the funeral of William Shakespeare & certain events thereafter
In which Pickleherring lays down his pen after telling of the curse on Shakespeare's grave