The Late Mr. Shakespeare Book

I	In which Pickleherring takes his pen to tell of his first meeting with Mr Shakespeare	1
II	In which Pickleherring makes strides in a pair of lugged boots	5
III	Pickleherring's Acknowledgements	8
IV	About John Shakespeare and the miller's daughter	13
V	How to spell Shakespeare and what a whittawer is	15
VI	About the begetting of William Shakespeare	19
VII	All the facts about Mr Shakespeare	23
VIII	Which is mostly about choughs but has no choughs in it	25
IX	About the birth of Mr WS	29
X	What if Bretchgirdle was Shakespeare's father?	33
XI	About this book	38
XII	Of WS: his first word, & the otters	43
XIII	Was John Shakespeare John Falstaff?	47
XIV	How Shakespeare's mother played with him	51
XV	What this book is doing	54
XVI	Shakespeare breeches	56
XVII	Pickleherring's room (in which he is writing this book)	62
XVIII	The Man in the Moon, or Pickleherring in praise of country history	66
XIX	Positively the last word about whittawers	70
XX	What if Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeare's mother?	73
XXI	The Shakespeare Arms	81
XXII	Pickleherring's Song	85
XXIII	About the childhood ailments of William Shakespeare	88
XXIV	About the great plague that was late in London	90
XXV	Bretchgirdle's cat	94
XXVI	Of the games of William Shakespeare when he was young	96
XXVII	The midwife Gertrude's tale	99
XXVIII	Of little WS and the cauldron of inspiration & science	102
XXIX	Some tales that William Shakespeare told his mother	107
XXX	What Shakespeare learned at Stratford Grammar School	110
XXXI	About Pompey Bum + Pickleherring's Shakespeare Test	116
XXXII	Did Shakespeare go to school at Polesworth?	119
XXXIII	Why John Shakespeare liked to be called Jack	121
XXXIV	What Shakespeare saw when he looked under Clopton Bridge	125
XXXV	About water	127
XXXVI	Of weeds and the original Ophelia	130
XXXVII	The revels at Kenilworth 9th July, 1575	136
XXXVIII	More about Jenkins	144
XXXIX	John Shakespeare when sober	147
XL	Jack Naps of Greece: his story	151
XLI	Jack Naps of Greece: his story concluded	160
XLII	Flute	164
XLIII	The speech that Shakespeare made when he killed a calf	165
XLIV	In which there is a death, and a birth, and an earthquake	167
XLV	Pickleherring's peep-hole	172
XLVI	About silk stockings	176
XLVII	How Shakespeare went to teach in Lancashire	179
XLVIII	How Shakespeare went to sea with Francis Drake	181
XLIX	How Shakespeare went to work in a lawyer's office	184
L	How Shakespeare went to the wars & sailed the seas (again?) & took a long walk in the Forest of Arden & captured a castle	187
LI	Pickleherring's confession	191
LII	In which Anne Hathaway	195
LIII	Shakespeare's other Anne	201
LIV	Pickleherring's nine muses	204
LV	In which John Shakespeare plays Shylock	209
LVI	In which Lucy is lousy	212
LVII	Shakespeare's Canopy, or Pickleherring in dispraise of wine	215
LVIII	Pickleherring's Poetics (some more about this book)	218
LIX	What Shakespeare did when first he came to London	220
LX	In which Pickleherring eats an egg in honour of Mr Shakespeare	225
LXI	In which Pickleherring speculates concerning the meaning of eggs	227
LXII	About Mr Richard Field: another ruminating gentleman	230
LXIII	About a great reckoning in a little room	233
LXIV	More	238
LXV	A look at William Shakespeare	244
LXVI	Pickleherring's list of the world's lost plays	246
LXVII	Love's Labour's Won	248
LXVIII	Was Shakespeare raped?	252
LXIX	All about Rizley	257
LXX	A Private Observation	262
LXXI	In which Pickleherring presents a lost sonnet by William Shakespeare	268
LXXII	Who was Shakespeare's Friend?	270
LXXIII	The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 1	275
LXXIV	The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 2	277
LXXV	The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 3	281
LXXVI	The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 4	285
LXXVII	The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 5	289
LXXVIII	Of eggs and Richard Burbage	297
LXXIX	A few more facts and fictions about William Shakespeare	302
LXXX	In which boys will be girls	307
LXXXI	In which Mr Shakespeare is mocked by his fellows	312
LXXXII	Pickleherring's poem	317
LXXXIII	In which Mr Shakespeare plays a game at tennis	321
LXXXIV	What Shakespeare got from Florio + a word about George Peele	326
LXXXV	Deaths, etc.	332
LXXXVI	'Mrs Lines and Mr Barkworth'	336
LXXXVII	Shakespeare in Scotland & other witchcrafts	342
LXXXVIII	About Comfort Ballantine	348
LXXXIX	In which Pickleherring plays Cleopatra at the house in St John Street	351
XC	Tom o' Bedlam's Song	356
XCI	In which William Shakespeare returns to Stratford	361
XCII	Bottoms	368
XCIII	Some sayings of William Shakespeare	370
XCIV	A word about John Spencer Stockfish	373
XCV	Pickleherring's list of things despaired of	375
XCVI	Shakespeare's Will (with notes by Pickleherring)	378
XCVII	Fire	382
XCVIII	The day Shakespeare died (with his last words, etc.)	384
XCIX	About the funeral of William Shakespeare & certain events thereafter	389
C	In which Pickleherring lays down his pen after telling of the curse on Shakespeare's grave	396
	Postscript	400