Intro
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
Maps
Author's Note
The Preliminary Pages of the First Folio
Prologue: The Covenant?
Act One: 1619: The Year of the 'False Folio'
Chapter 1: England's 'Delightful Proteus'
Chapter 2: 'The Loss of My Old Acquaintance'
Chapter 3: The 'Pavier-Jaggard Quartos'
Chapter 4: 'Forged Invention Former Times Defaced'
Chapter 5: 'Of Great Living, Wealth and Power'
Act Two: 1621: Negotiating the First Folio
Chapter 6: 'Care and Pains'
Chapter 7: Bears, Parrots and Angels

Chapter 8: Dials, Legs and Harts
Chapter 9: 'Sister of a Star'
Act Three: 1622: Printing the First Folio
Chapter 10: 'The Author's Genius'
Chapter 11: 'Our Will Shakespeare'
Chapter 12: 'Like an Old Fencer Upon the stage'
Chapter 13: Calves, Cows and Cyphers
Act Four: 1623: Making History Making Shakespeare: Finishing the First Folio
Chapter 14: A 'Hazardous Experiment'
Chapter 15: 'Pursue the Stars'
Chapter 16: 'The Graver Had a Strife'
Chapter 17: 'Thy Stratford Monument'
Act Five: William Shakespeare's Will in His Book

Chapter 18: The 'Sireniacal' Fraternity
Chapter 19: 'Big with False Greatness'
Chapter 20: 'Baseless Fabric'?
Epilogue: 1623 and Beyond
Photographs
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright