A Warwickshire Lad

About this eBook

Author

Martin, George Madden, 1866-1946

Title

A Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

Credits

Produced by David Garcia, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

27187

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27187

Release Date

November 7, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A WARWICKSHIRE LAD — Birthplace of Shakespeare — Copyright, 1916, by — D. APPLETON AND COMPANY — Copyright, 1903, by P. F. Collier & Son, Inc — Printed in the United States of America
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — A WARWICKSHIRE LAD
4. 4.I — "Will clambered up on the settle to think it all over"
5. 5.II — "Dad bends to tweak the ear of Will"
6. 6.III — "'Ay, but those are brave words, Hammie,' says Gammer" — "'Save us! What's that!' cried Gammer"
7. 7.IV — "'Ay, boy, you shall see the players'"
8. 8.V — "'An' I shall be a player, too' ... says Willy Shakespeare"
9. 9.VI — "His mother stepping now and then to the lattice window ..."
10. 10.VII — "Bound for Grandfather's at Snitterfield they were"
11. 11.VIII — "For instance, he knew one Bardolph ... the tapster at the tavern"
12. 12.IX — "Hidden among the willows ... he spends the morning" — "The two have run away ... to wander about the river banks."
13. 13.X — "He ... trudged up the path and peered in at the open door" — "'When the masterful hand, groping, seizes mine, I shall know it'"
14. 14.XI — "This strange thing called Death...."
15. 15.XII — "Dad ... sat staring in moody silence"
16. 16.XIII — "Tall, sturdy Will Shakespeare could buy up cattle ... as well as the butcher's son"

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