CONTENTS

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The Tempest[1]
A Midsummer Night's Dream[14]
The Winter's Tale[27]
Much Ado about Nothing[39]
As You Like It[53]
The Two Gentlemen of Verona[71]
The Merchant of Venice[85]
Cymbeline[102]
King Lear[117]
Macbeth[136]
All's Well that Ends Well[148]
The Taming of the Shrew[162]
The Comedy of Errors[174]
Measure for Measure[190]
Twelfth Night; or, What you Will[206]
Timon of Athens[221]
Romeo and Juliet[236]
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark[255]
Othello[272]
Pericles, Prince of Tyre[287]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Perdita[....]
When Caliban was lazy and neglected his Work, Ariel would come slily and pinch him[....]
Where is Pease-Blossom?[....]
Paulina drew back the Curtain which concealed this famous Statue[....]
Ganymede assumed the Forward Manners often seen in Youths when they are between Boys and Men[....]
Imogen's Two Brothers then carried her to a Shady Covert[....]
Cordelia[....]
They were stopped by the Strange Appearance of Three Figures[....]
Petruchio, pretending to find Fault with every Dish, threw the Meat about the Floor[....]
She began to think of confessing that she was a Woman[....]
At the Cell of Friar Lawrence[....]
To this Brook Ophelia came[....]


There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his daughter Miranda, a very beautiful young lady. She came to this island so young, that she had no memory of having seen any other human face than her father's.