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List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Irishbeginnings; 2. 'Shakspearomania'; 3. Dr Johnson and the club; 4.Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole; 5. Scholarship andstrife; 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of theHebrides; 7. Deep in Shakespeare; 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson; 9.Interruptions and disappointments; 10. The club of Hercules: exposingShakespeare forgeries; 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds andBurke; 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century; 13. Signs ofweariness; 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians'; Epilogue: TheMalone-Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821); Appendices; Notes;Bibliography; Index.