Table of Contents

Introduction
Social history
1. The theatrical community
2. Wealth and finance
3. The personal voice
Testamentary procedure
4. Wills and the law
5. The making of the will
6. The form of the will
7. Probate
List of testators by date of will or administration
List of testators by occupation
Documents
8. Wills
9. Some administrations of interest
10. Inventories
Appendices
1. Acting companies to 1642
2. Printed indexes to wills
Index of persons

About the Author

E.A.J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Susan Brock is Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.