and the French king. A few
months later, Shakespeare and his associates assumed the management of
the Blackfriars and gave performances there as well as at the Globe.

These facts explain Wallace's discovery that Shakespeare at the time
of his death owned a one-seventh interest in the second Blackfriars, a
theater that had formerly been a rival to the Globe.]

[Footnote 17: _Dr. Faustus_, Scene 6.]

[Footnote 18: _Tamburlaine_, Act II., Scene 7.]

[Footnote 19: _The Winter's Tale_, Act IV., Scene 4.]

[Footnote 20: Tradition says that Shakespeare occupied the desk in the
farthest corner.]

[Footnote 21: Greene's _Groatsworth of Wit_, Grosart's edition of
Greene's _Works_, Vol. XII., p. 144.]

[Footnote 22: The contract price for building the Fortune Theater was
L440.]

[Footnote 23: Adapted from Furnivall.]

[Footnote 24: Entered one year before at Stationers' Hall.]

[Footnote 25: May be looked on as fairly certain.]

[Footnote 26: _Henry V_., Act II., Scene 3, line 10.]

[Footnote 27: Bradley's _Shakespearean Tragedy_, p. 327.]

[Footnote 28: _The Tempest_, Act V., Scene 1.]

[Footnote 29: _Ibid_., Act I., Scene 2.]

[Footnote 30: For a list of books of selections from the drama, see p.
216.]

[Footnote 31: For full titles, see p. 6.]

[Footnote 32: For full titles of books of dramatic selections, see the
preceding paragraph.]

CHAPTER V: THE PURITAN AGE, 1603-1660

History of the Period.--James I. (1603-1625), son of Mary Stuart,
Queen of Scots, and the first of the Stuart line to reign in England,
succeeded Elizabeth. His stubbornness and folly not only ended the
intense patriotic feeling of the previous reign, but laid the
foundation for the deadly conflict that resulted. In fifty-four years
after the defeat of the Armada, England was plunged into civil war.

The guiding belief of James I. was that kings governed by divine
right, that they received from the Deity a title of which no one could
lawfully deprive them, no matter how outrageously they ruled, and that
they were not in any way responsible to Parliament or to the people.
In acting on this belief, he first trampled on the religious liberty
of his subjects. He drove from their churches hundreds of clergymen
who would not take oath that they believed that the prayer book of the
Church of England agreed in every way with the _Bible_. He boasted
that he would "harry out of the kingdom" those who would not conform.

During the reign