Table of Contents

Introduction Alfred W. Pollard: 1. More bad quartos; 2. Shakespeare's earliest work?; 3. Shakespeare a Queen's man; 4. Had Shakespeare a collaborator?; 5. Verse tests; The Argument: 1. Greene's quotation from 3 Henry VI; 2. The bad quartos of 2 and 3 Henry VI; 3. The early plays of the schoolmaster from the country; 4. The alternative to Heminge and Condell; 5. The first period; Index.

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Originally published in 1929, this book contains an examination of Shakespeare's three-part Henry VI and its 'sequel', Richard III.