d have referred
always to its numeration of acts, scenes, and lines.

_November, 1904._

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NOTE TO SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT IMPRESSIONS

In these impressions I have confined myself to making some formal
improvements, correcting indubitable mistakes, and indicating here and
there my desire to modify or develop at some future time statements
which seem to me doubtful or open to misunderstanding. The changes,
where it seemed desirable, are shown by the inclusion of sentences in
square brackets.

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1

LECTURE I.

THE SUBSTANCE OF SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY 5

LECTURE II.

CONSTRUCTION IN SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES 40

LECTURE III.

SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC PERIOD--HAMLET 79

LECTURE IV.

HAMLET 129

LECTURE V.

OTHELLO 175

LECTURE VI.

OTHELLO 207

LECTURE VII.

KING LEAR 243

LECTURE VIII.

KING LEAR 280

LECTURE IX.

MACBETH 331

LECTURE X.

MACBETH 366

NOTE A. Events before the opening of the action in _Hamlet_ 401

NOTE B. Where was Hamlet at the time of his father's death? 403

NOTE C. Hamlet's age 407

NOTE D. 'My tables--meet it is I set it down' 409

NOTE E. The Ghost in the cellarage 412

NOTE F. The Player's speech in _Hamlet_ 413

NOTE G. Hamlet's apology to Laertes 420

NOTE H. The exchange of rapiers 422

NOTE I. The duration of the action in
_Othello_ 423

NOTE J. The 'additions' in the Folio text of _Othello_. The
Pontic sea 429

NOTE K. Othello's courtship 432

NOTE L. Othello in the Temptation scene 434