The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

PART ONE - ‘One Mr Shakespeare’

Chapter 1: The deposition

Chapter 2: Turning forty

Chapter 3: Sugar and gall

Chapter 4: Shakespeare in London

PART TWO - Silver Street

Chapter 5: The house on the corner

Chapter 6: The neighbourhood

Chapter 7: ‘Houshould stuffe’

Chapter 8: The chamber

PART THREE - The Mountjoys

Chapter 9: Early years

Chapter 10: St Martin le Grand

Chapter 11: Success and danger

Chapter 12: Dr Forman’s casebook

Chapter 13: The me’nage

PART FOUR - Tiremaking

Chapter 14: Tires and wigs

Chapter 15: The ‘tire-valiant’

Chapter 16: In the workshop

Chapter 17: The underpropper

PART FIVE - Among Strangers

Chapter 18: Blackfriars and Navarre

Chapter 19: Shakespeare’s aliens

Chapter 20: Dark ladies

PART SIX - Sex & the City

Chapter 21: Enter George Wilkins

Chapter 22: The Miseries

Chapter 23: Prostitutes and players

Chapter 24: Customer satisfaction

Chapter 25: To Brainforde

Chapter 26: ‘At his game’

PART SEVEN - Making Sure

Chapter 27: A handfasting

Chapter 28: ‘They have married me!’

Chapter 29: Losing a daughter

Epilogue

Appendix: The Belott-Mountjoy Papers

Notes

Sources

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