TALES FROM SHAKESPEAR
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Preface 1
The Tempest 3
A Midsummer Night's Dream 13
The Winter's Tale 23
Much Ado About Nothing 33
As You Like It 44
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 58
The Merchant of Venice 69
Cymbeline 81
King Lear 92
Macbeth 106
All's Well that Ends Well 115
The Taming of the Shrew 126
The Comedy of Errors 136
Measure for Measure 148
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 161
Timon of Athens 173
Romeo and Juliet 184
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 199
Othello 213
Pericles, Prince of Tyre 225
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES
Preface 240
CHAPTER I. The Cicons--The fruit of the lotos tree--Polyphemus and the Cyclops--The kingdom of the winds, and god Æolus's fatal present--The Læstrygonian man-eaters 241
CHAPTER II. The House of Circe--Men changed into beasts--The voyage to hell--The banquet of the dead