Shakespeare Suppressed
Contents
Introduction
List of Terms
Part I
Shakespeare: Greatness and Great Problems
1. Literary Supreme, Supreme Literary Mystery
2. Mess of Genius: Shakespeare’s Early Printed Texts
3. Shakespeare Problems the Professor Still Cannot Solve
4. The Sonnets and Other Puzzle-Poems
Part II
The Stratford Man as Shakespeare, Lifetime: the Professor’s Evidence
5. The “Stratford Man”: The Faith-based Favorite
6. The “upstart Crow” and the Stratford Man: No Relation
7. Upstart Crow Uproar, and a Few Hostile Witnesses
Part III
The Stratford Man as Shakespeare, Posthumous: the Professor’s Evidence
8. The First Folio Fraud
9. A Pembroke and Jonson Production
10. The Stratford Monument: Ruse and Reincarnation
11. Folio Feedback
Part IV
The Real Stratford Man and the Real Shakespeare
12. Portrayals of the Stratford Man in Contemporary Comedies (1598 – 1601)
13. The Great Author’s Portrayal of the Stratford Man
14. Shakespeare Satirized: Willobie His Avisa (1594)
15. Overlooked Commentary about Shakespeare by his Contemporaries (1589 – 1614)
Part V
Conjectures and Dares
16. The Deliberate Mix-up: the Great Author with the Stratford Man. Why?
17. “Simple Truth Suppress’d”: a Unified Solution
18. Dare the Shakespeare Professor
Appendices
A. 93 “Too Early” Allusions to Shakespeare’s Plays (1562 to 1606)
B. Robert Greene’s Letter to his “Playmaker” Friends in Groats-worth of Wit (1592)
C. Henry Chettle’s letter in Kind-Heart’s Dream (1592)
D. Anonymous Letter to the Reader, Troilus and Cressida (1609)
E. Shakespeare’s Two Poems in Love’s Martyr (1601)
F. Thomas Heywood’s Letter in An Apology for Actors (1612)
G. The First Folio Preface (1623), a Transcription
H. POEMS: WRITTEN BY WIL. SHAKE-SPEARE. Gent. (1640), Prefatory Verses