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Part 1 The country background: reading and writing; the family home andtrades; religion, school and Latin; the early theatre; poverty; butchery andby-products; John Shakespeare's Catholic testament; Lancashire; the lawclerk; Lucy and his deer; marriage and departure; theatre, work and company;the battle of the books; wits and their butts - Marlowe, Greene, Nashe,Lodge, Peele, Lyly. Appendices: allies - Harvey and Spenser; the Parnassusplays; Willobie his avisa; the sonnets; the actor-playwright of the 1590s.Part 2 Style - the noted weed: Ur Hamlet; Hamlet 1603; the taming of a shrew;the troublesome reign; contention and true tragedy; faire em and locrine;man's wit and the dialogue of dives; early start and revision; "Bad Quartos"and "Memorial Reconstruction by Actors"; "Source Plays", "Derivative Plays"and plagiarism; dating and "Collaboration"; "Stylometry"; handwriting;documents.