JOHN MASEFIELD

AUTHOR OF "THE TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT," "MULTITUDE AND SOLITUDE," "LOST ENDEAVOUR," "CAPTAIN MARGARET," "THE TRAGEDY OF NAN," ETC.

NEW AND REVISED EDITION
LONDON

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE

CHAP.	PAGE
I	The Life of Shakespeare	[9]
II	The Elizabethan Theatres	[18]
III	The Plays	[23]
	Love's Labour's Lost	[24]
	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	[34]
	The Comedy of Errors	[43]
	Titus Andronicus	[49]
	King Henry VI, Part I	[51]
	" " " " II	[54]
	" " " " III	[60]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	[63]
	Romeo and Juliet	[67]
	King John	[75]
	King Richard II	[86]
	King Richard III	[93]
	The Merchant of Venice	[102]
	The Taming of the Shrew	[105]
	King Henry IV, Part I	[109]
	" " " " II	[114]
	King Henry V	[120]
	The Merry Wives of Windsor	[123]
	As You Like It	[128]
	Much Ado About Nothing	[133]
	Twelfth Night	[138]
	All's Well that Ends Well	[144]
	Julius Cæsar	[149]
	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	[157]
	Troilus and Cressida	[168]
	Measure for Measure	[174]
	Othello, the Moor of Venice	[180]
	King Lear	[186]
	Macbeth	[195]
	Antony and Cleopatra	[202]
	Coriolanus	[208]
	Timon of Athens	[214]
	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	[218]
	Cymbeline	[223]
	The Winter's Tale	[226]
	The Tempest	[231]
	King Henry VIII	[235]
	Work Attributed to Shakespeare	[238]
	The Poems
	Venus and Adonis	[241]
	The Rape of Lucrece	[242]
	The Passionate Pilgrim	[244]
	The Sonnets	[244]
	The Phœnix and the Turtle	[249]
	Author's Note	[250]
	Index	[253]

CONTENTS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE