Foreword Preliminary notes PART ONE SETTING THE STAGE... 1 First light 2 Dismemberment and display 3 Invisible/visible Will 4 The written shows 5 Friends of his... PART TWO ASSEMBLING THE PIECES... 6 Coming to London 7 Shakespeare's private theater 8 Sequence and focus for 23 months 9 How the new scenes work... 10 Southampton dedications revisited 11 Shakespeare's Company's Genesis... PART THREE THE LOVE QUARTET AND TITCHFIELD 12 Dream reversals 13 Not enough words... 14 Playing straight through 15 Anatomy and attachment 16 About Emilia Bassano... PART FOUR THE NEW COSMOLOGY, ANATOMIZED 17 Audition, and the cloning of A Midsummer Night's Dream 18 Mercutio's handbook 19 Trinity and the battery characters 20 Singularity 21 The constellations Afterword Bibliography