CONTENTS PAGE 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 ILLUSTRATIONSPerdita [.... ] 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.