SHAKSPEARIAN READER:

A COLLECTION OF

THE MOST APPROVED PLAYS

OF

SHAKSPEARE;

CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH

INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

AND

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE USE OF CLASSES, AND THE

FAMILY READING CIRCLE.

BY
JOHN W. S. HOWS,

PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE.

The Man, whom NATURE's self had made
To mock herself, and Truri to imitate.

Spenser.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY.

M.DCCC.LVII,

KD 38420

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY
(47*172

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

N. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern Listrict of New-York.

CONTENTS.

Pago

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53

79

111

145

172

201

235

HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK,

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, .

MACBETH, ,

As You LIKE IT, .

OTHELLO,

THE TEMPEST,

ROMEO AND JULIET,

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,

KING LEAR,

MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM,

JULIUS CÆSAR, .

TWELFTH-Night; Or, What You Woul,

MEASURE FOR MEASURE,

KING John,

KING HENRY IV,

KING HENRY VIII,

262

299

318

355

372

385