LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
“HIS FATHER, AGED THOUGH HE WAS, SCOUTED THE PROPOSITION AS ABSURD”[7]
“AND HAMLET STALKING IN THE CORRIDORS”[27]
“MY DEAR LORD, NEVER MARRY A WITTY WIFE!”[45]
“BUT THEY’RE VERY SEVERE ON THE PLAY”[61]
“AH, JOSEPH, YOU’RE A SAD DOG!”[83]
“BUT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SHY”[95]
“LET ME GIVE MY CLAUDE’S WIFE A KISS”[117]
MR. ECCLES MAKES HIS HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIXTH APPEARANCE AT THE POLICE COURT[131]
“I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE”[147]
“SHE ANNOUNCED HER INTENTION OF LEAVING THE HOUSE FOR EVER”[171]
“NOT BROODING, I TRUST, DEAR?”[185]
“I’D GIVE MY GENIUS FOR YOUR DIGESTION ANY DAY”[211]
“FRIDAY, YOU KNOW, IS THE MEETING OF THE AGAMISTS’ LEAGUE”[223]
“MYSHTICISM, DIFFICULT WORD TO SAY, MYSTICISHM”[239]

PREFATORY.

Plays end too soon. They never show

The whole of what I want to know.

The curtain falls and I’m perplexed

With doubts about what happened next.

Did Hamlet’s father haunt no more

The battlements of Elsinore?