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
AEolus's fatal present--The Laestrygonian man-eaters 241
CHAPTER II. The House of Circe--Men changed into beasts--The
voyage to hell--The banquet of the dead 250
CHAPTER III. The song of the Sirens--Scylla and Charybdis--The
oxen of the Sun--The judgment--The crew killed by lightning 262
CHAPTER IV. The Island of Calypso--Immortality refused 269
CHAPTER V. The tempest--The sea-bird's gift--The escape by
swimming--The sleep in the woods 273
CHAPTER VI. The Princess Nausicaa--The washing--The game
with the ball--The Court of Phaeacia and king Alcinous. 277
CHAPTER VII. The songs of Demodocus--The convoy home--The
mariners transformed to stone--The young shepherd. 283
CHAPTER VIII. The change from a king to a beggar--Eumaeus
and the herdsmen--Telemachus 290
CHAPTER IX. The queen's suitors--The battle of the beggars--The
armour taken down--The meeting with Penelope 301
CHAPTER X. The madness from above--The bow of Ulysses--The
slaughter--The conclusion 308
MRS. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL
Dedication 316
Elizabeth Villiers: The Sailor Uncle 319
Louisa Manners: The
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