Project Gutenberg 2017-02-11 Public domain in the USA. 47 Rolfe, W. J. (William James) 1827 1910 Rolfe, William James Rolfe, William J. Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time I. His native town and neighborhood: Warwickshire. Warwick Castle and Saint Mary's Church. Warwick in history. Guy of Warwick. Kenilworth Castle. Coventry. Charlecote Hall. Stratford-on-Avon. The early history of Stratford. The Stratford Guild. The Stratford corporation. The topography of Stratford -- II. His home life: The dwelling-houses of the time. The household furniture. Food and drink. The training of children. Indoor amusements. Popular books. Story-telling. Christenings. Superstitions connected with birth and baptism. Charms and amulets -- III. At school: The Stratford grammar school. What Shakespeare learnt at school. The neglect of English. School life in Shakespeare's day. School morals. School discipline. When William left school -- IV. Games and sports: Boyish games. Swimming and fishing. Bear-baiting. Cock-fighting and cock-throwing. Other cruel sports. Archery. Hunting. Fowling. Hawking. Theatrical entertainments -- V. Holidays, festivals, fairs, etc.: Saint George's Day. Easter. The perambulation of the parish. May-Day and the Morris-dance. Whitsuntide. Midsummer Eve. Christmas. Sheep-shearing. Harvest-home. Markets and fairs. Rural outings. E-text prepared by MWS, John Campbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) en Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Childhood and youth PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature 547069 546772 2024-08-22T11:46:19.362804 2023-09-23T10:10:03.113800 text/html text/html 534809 2017-02-11T16:01:30 text/html 3134252 2017-02-11T16:04:46 text/html application/zip 2990235 2024-08-22T11:46:32.619748 application/epub+zip 2992656 2024-08-22T11:46:22.165782 application/epub+zip 280777 2024-08-22T11:46:20.700771 application/epub+zip 3161759 2024-08-22T11:46:39.220680 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3127599 2024-08-22T11:46:30.717770 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 422208 2022-09-24T16:41:26.226276 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 423273 423093 2024-08-22T11:46:17.161806 2023-09-23T10:10:00.481809 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 423376 2020-06-13T21:14:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 168704 2020-06-13T21:14:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19788 2024-08-22T11:46:39.382680 application/rdf+xml 15030 2024-08-22T11:46:20.868767 image/jpeg 2669 2024-08-22T11:46:20.784790 image/jpeg 3212910 2024-08-22T11:46:19.517845 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia