. 163 ANTIPHOLUS AND
DROMIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 LUCIANA AND ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE . . . . . .
175 THE GOLDSMITH AND ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE . . . 178
AEMILIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 THE PRINCE OF MOROCCO . . . . . . . . . . . .
187 ANTONIO SIGNS THE BOND . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 JESSICA LEAVING
HOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 BASSANIO PARTS WITH THE RING . . . . . . . . . 192
POET READING TO TIMON . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 PAINTER SHOWING TIMON A
PICTURE . . . . . . . 197 "NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY BOX" . . . . . . . . . . 200 TIMON
GROWS SULLEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 OTHELLO TELLING DESDEMONA HIS
ADVENTURES . . . 211 OTHELLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 THE DRINK OF
WINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 CASSIO GIVES THE HANDKERCHIEF . . . . . . . . 222
DESDEMONA WEEPING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 THE MUSIC
MASTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 KATHARINE BOXES THE SERVANT'S
EARS . . . . . . 232 PETRUCHIO FINDS FAULT WITH THE SUPPER . . . . 235 THE
DUKE IN THE FRIAR'S DRESS . . . . . . . . 244 ISABELLA PLEADS WITH
ANGELO . . . . . . . . . 247 "YOUR FRIAR IS NOW YOUR PRINCE" . . . . . . . 253
VALENTINE WRITES A LETTER FOR SILVIA . . . . . 258 SILVIA READING THE
LETTER . . . . . . . . . . 259 THE SERENADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 ONE OF THE
OUTLAWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 HELENA AND BERTRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
HELENA AND THE KING . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 READING BERTRAM'S
LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . 281 HELENA AND THE WIDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece TITANIA AND THE
CLOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 FERDINAND AND MIRANDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
PRINCE FLORIZEL AND PERDITA . . . . . . . . . . 54 ROMEO AND
JULIET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 IMOGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 CHOOSING
THE CASKET . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 PETRUCHIO AND KATHERINE . . . . . . . . . . . 228
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Hermia and Lysander were lovers; but Hermia's father wished her to marry another man,
named Demetrius.
Now, in Athens, where they lived, there was a wicked law, by which any girl who refused
to marry according to her father's wishes, might be put to death. Hermia's father was so
angry with her for refusing to do as he wished, that he actually brought her before the
Duke of Athens to ask that she might be killed, if she still refused to obey him. The Duke
gave her four days to think about it, and, at the end of that time, if she still refused to
marry Demetrius, she would have to die.
Lysander of course was nearly mad with grief, and the best thing to do seemed to him for
Hermia to run away to his aunt's house at a place beyond the reach of that cruel law; and
there he would come to her and marry her. But before she started,
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