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

[Illustration]

THE TEMPEST

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.

They lived in a cave or cell, made out of a rock; it was divided into
several apartments, one of which Prospero called his study; there he
kept his books, which chiefly treated of magic, a study at that time
much affected by all learned men: and the knowledge of this art he found
very useful to him; for being thrown by a strange chance upon this
island, which had been enchanted by a witch called Sycorax, who died
there a short time before his arrival, Prospero, by virtue of his art,
released many good spirits that Sycorax had imprisoned in the bodies of
large trees, because they had refused to execute her wicked commands.
These gentle spirits were ever after obedient to the will of Prospero.
Of these Ariel was the chief.

[Illustration: WHEN CALIBAN WAS LAZY AND NEGLECTED HIS WORK, ARIEL WOULD
COME SLILY AND PINCH HIM]

The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature,
except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly
monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son
of his old enemy Sycorax. This Caliban, Prospero found in the woods, a
strange misshapen thing, fa