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The Example of the French and German Stage 16 VIII. Shakespeare's Reliance on the "Imaginary Forces" of the Audience 18 IX. The Patriotic Argument for the Production of Shakespeare's Plays constantly and in their variety on the English Stage 23

II

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Playgoer

I.	An Imaginary Discovery of Shakespeare's Journal	25
II.	Shakespeare in the rôle of the Ghost on the First Production of Hamlet in 1602	27
III.	Shakespeare's Popularity in the Elizabethan Theatre	29
IV.	At Court in 1594	31
V.	The Theatre an Innovation in Elizabethan England	36
VI.	Elizabethan Methods of Production	38
VII.	The Contrast between the Elizabethan and the Modern Methods	43
VIII.	The Fitness of the Audience an Essential Element in the Success of Shakespeare on the Stage	46

III

Shakespeare in Oral Tradition

I.	The Reception of the News of Shakespeare's Death	49
II.	The Evolution in England of Formal Biography	51
III.	Oral Tradition concerning Shakespeare in Theatrical Circles	57
IV.	The Testimonies of Seventeenth-century Actors	61
V.	Sir William D'Avenant's Devotion to Shakespeare's Memory	69
VI.	Early Oral Tradition at Stratford-on-Avon	73
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