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The Prince, Autolycus, and Camillo; - contrasts Fourth and Fifth Acts with the three preceding ones.

Much Ado About Nothing.

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Sq. 16mo. Cloth. 138 pages. Mailing Price, 65 cents; Introduction Price, 56 cents.

Gives a sketch of The Poet's Life; and treats, in the Introduction, of: The History of the Play, - Sources of the Plot, — General Characteristics, — Action and Character; outlines the characters of Hero and Claudio, of John, Dogberry, Verges, Benedick, and Beatrice; speaks of the Wit of Benedick and Beatrice, - and concludes with remarks upon the fitness of the Play's name.

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A Midsummer-Night's Dream.

Sq. 16mo. Cloth. 128 pages. Mailing Price, 65 cents; Introduction Price, 56 cents.

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The Introduction treats of: The Date of the Composition, Hardly suited to the Stage, - Sources of the Plot, — General Characteristics, The Fairy People, — Supposed Allusions, The Human Mortals, — Interplay of the Comic and the Poetical, The Delineation of Theseus, — The Lovers, - Bottom the Weaver, Concluding Remarks.

Tragedy of Hamlet.

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Sq. 16mo. Cloth. 253 pages. Mailing Price, 65 cents; Introduction Price, 56 cents.

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The Introduction treats of: The History of the Play, Source of the Plot, — General Characteristics of the Play, - Political Basis of the Action, Hamlet's Madness, — Hamlet's alleged Defect of Will, Why Hamlet does not strike the King,- Why the Poet does not make Hamlet strike, - Catching the King's Conscience, Hamlet seeing the King at Prayer, — Hamlet with his Mother, How the Revenge is brought about,- Hamlet's Self-Disparagement, Pathos of Hamlet's Situation, - General Remarks on Hamlet, Laertes, The King, The Ghost, Horatio, Polonius, Ophelia, The Queen, Conclusion.

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