From the Book - First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Prologue: The covenant? Shakespeare's 'fellows' and the First Folio
Act one. 1619 : the year of the 'False Folio'
England's 'delightful proteus' : the death of Richard Burbage
'The loss of my old acquaintance' : the First Folio's patrons and the courtiers' war
The 'Pavier-Jaggard quartos' : a Shakespearean printing mystery
'Forged invention former times defaced' : negotiating and printing the 'False Folio'
'Of great living, wealth and power' : the King's Men's public and private enemies
Act two. 1621 : negotiating the First Folio
'Care and pains' : hunting the King's Men's lost Shakespeare plays
Bears, parrots and angels : St Paul's Cross Churchyard, London's publishing powerhouse
Dials, legs and harts : in St Dunstan's Churchyard and Fleet Street
'Sister of a star' : staging the Spanish match
Act three. 1622 : printing the First Folio
'The author's genius' : inside the half-eagle and key
'Our Will Shakespeare' : comedies, pilgrims and Spain's Golden Age
'Like an old fencer upon the stage' : William Jaggard's War and the Bard's comeback
Calves, cows and cyphers : Edward Blount's secrets and the comedies' completion
Act four. 1623 : making history making Shakespeare: Finishing the First Folio
'A 'hazardous experiment' : playing lovers and printing histories
'Pursue the stars' : an apprentice, a widow's funeral and other tragedies
'The graver had a strife' : portraying Shakespeare through national crisis
'Thy Stratford monument' : the grave, the Folio and selling Shakespeare's 'works'
Act five. William Shakespeare's will in his book
The 'sireniacal' fraternity : Shakespeare and Oxford
'Big with false greatness' : the enigma of Cygnus and a lost Shakespeare sonnet?
'Baseless fabric'? : Shakespeare's lodger and the first folio
Epilogue: 1623 and beyond : from Shakespeare's book to the world's book.
