Shakespeare's Youth

And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.

The topics in this section include:

• Courtship and marriage
• Shakespeare's children
• The "lost years"
• Arrival in London--an attack
• Early plays
• Poems, sonnets, and the Earl of Southampton
• A "Night of Errors," and the first play published