Table of Contents: “…The English history play -- Shakespeare's comedies -- Shakespeare and the diction of common life -- Shakespeare's reading -- The proverbial wisdom of Shakespeare -- The Elizabethan theatre -- Two Shakespearians : Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866-1954). Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959) -- Some English mock-prognostications -- The English jest-books of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries -- Table talk.…”