Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Stories of Shakespeare's Comedies
IT seems almost a sacrilege to present merely the amework - the dry bones - of those world-famed asterpieces of diction and character drawing, Plays; yet, for their right under enjoyment, it is useful to disentangle ricate and confused substructures upon h they are reared, which (with one possible ex on) were taken' by the poet from earlier plays d transformed and transfigured by his genius. To familiarise one's self with the main outlines the plots or stories, and to refresh and clarify [c's memory in regard to the characters and action, aves one free to appreciate in full the beauty, arm, and force of the complete works, either when en and heard on the stage, or read and re-read in e study. To the student of literature, the theatre-goer, 1d all worshippers at the shrine of the master poet, e therefore offer in these pages bald but fairly mplete outlines, which follow closely the action the plays, and which for the sake of clearness 1d brevity have been left free from criticism, com ent, and all save the scantiest quotations, although re temptation to insert whole passages proved al ost irresistible.
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