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THE

DRAMATIC WORKS

O F

SHAKSPEAR E.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

CONTAINING

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

MERCHANT OF VENICE.

AS YOU LIKE IT,

TAMING OF THE SHREW.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

TWELFTH NIGHT.

WINTER'S TALE.

ERRATA

IN VOL. I.

Page 9, line 15, for parellel read parallel

81, line 18, for

you

read your

145, line 2, infert Sil. Sir Protheus, as I take it.

153, line 11, for as read hath

168, line 16, for marrying read marring

303, Note 2, dele-after 'Twill

304, Note, read deprive a man

335, Note, read this being fo

392, line 10, for

you

read your

412, Note, dele the before battle

559. Note, read within the fillet or bandage wrapt round his fhin-in them all, Sir.

560, Note', dele and below it means a crab-ftick.

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MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S

DR E. A M.

VOL. II.

B

PERSONS

THESEUS, Duke of Athens.

EGEUS, Father to HERMIA.

LYSANDER, in love with HERMIA.

DEMETRIUS, in love with HERMIA.

PHILOSTRATE, Master of the Sports to THESEUS.

QUINCE, the Carpenter.

SNUG, the Joiner.

BOTTOM, the Weaver.

FLUTE, the Bellows-mender.

SNOWT, the Tinker.

STARVELING, the Taylor.

HIPPOLITA, Queen of the AMAZONS, betrothed to THESEUS. HERMIA, Daughter to EGEUS, in love with LYSANDER. HELENA, in love with DEMETRIUS.

Attendants.

OBERON, King of the Fairies.

TITANIA, Queen of the Fairies.

PUCK, or ROBIN-GOODFELLOW, a Fairy.

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Other Fairies attending their King and Queen: Attendants on

THESEUS and HIPPOLITA.

SCENE-Athens, and a Wood not far from it.

THIS PLAY, denominated probably from the season of its first representation, is fuppofed to have been written about the year 1595; the firft hint of it is faid to have been taken from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and the character of Oberon from an old romance called "Sir Hugh of Bourdeaux,”

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