Treatment of the 227
theme
1603, _March_ 26 Queen Elizabeth's 229
death
James I's patronage 230
XIV--THE HIGHEST
THEMES OF TRAGEDY
1604, Nov. _Othello_ 235
1604, Dec. _Measure for Measure_ 237
1606 _Macbeth_ 239
1607 _King Lear_ 241
1608 _Timon of Athens_ 242
1608 _Pericles_ 243
1608 _Antony and 245
Cleopatra_
1609 _Coriolanus_ 247
XV--THE LATEST PLAYS
The placid temper of 248
the latest plays
1610 _Cymbeline_ 249
1611 _A Winter's Tale_ 251
1611 _The Tempest_ 252
Fanciful 256
interpretations of
_The Tempest_
Unfinished plays 258
The lost play of 258
_Cardenio_
_The Two Noble 259
Kinsmen_
_Henry VIII_ 261
The burning of the 262
Globe Theatre
XVI--THE CLOSE OF
LIFE
Plays at Court in 264
1613
Actor-friends 264
1611 Final settlement at 266
Stratford
Domestic affairs 266
1613, _March_ Purchase of a house 267
in Blackfriars
1614, Oct. Attempt to enclose 269
the Stratford common
fields
1616, April 23rd. Shakespeare's death 272
1616, April 25th. Shakespeare's burial 272
The will 273
Shakespeare's bequest 273
to his wife
Shakespeare's heiress 275
Legacies to friends 276