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The Shakespeare Story-Book

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
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An introductory study examines the interdependence of plot and character in dramatic art, arguing that both are essential and recommending that young readers learn plots first to appreciate characters more fully later. It critiques earlier simplified retellings for omitting crucial incidents and obscuring thematic detail, and aims to supply clearer, more complete narrations of the plays. The volume traces many plots back to Italian and French prose sources, explains how the dramatist adapted and combined those tales, and presents concise story renditions designed to clarify dramatic structure and origins for youthful audiences.


ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece—“Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!”
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Heading to Introduction vii
“Some have greatness thrust upon them” xiv
Heading to Contents xv
  ”   Illustrations xix
Ariel and Caliban  1
“What?... Put thy sword up, traitor!”  7
“I love and honour you beyond all limit” 12
“Now let us take our leave” 27
“Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie” 32
“Go, base intruder! Overweening slave!” 38
“Treacherous man! Thou hast beguiled my hopes!” 49
Cupid’s trap 54
“Yet tell her of it; hear what she will say” 66
“A thousand times good-night” 71
“There, Leonato, take her back again” 73
Puck in mischief 82
“What thou seest when thou dost wake” 93
“Lysander!... Alack, where are you?” 94
“O, how I love thee! How I doat on thee!” 97
“Methought I was—no man could tell what I was” 103
On the Rialto 104
“For these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much money” 108
“Tarry a little: there is something else” 125
“And for your love I’ll take this ring from you” 129
In the Forest of Arden 133
“We’ll have a martial outside” 141
“It is ten o’clock” 145
“Hang there, my verse” 149
Audrey, the goatherd 150
“And your experience makes you sad?” 153
Katharine and Petruchio 158
“Fear not, they shall not touch thee, Kate” 165
“What’s this? A sleeve?” 169
“Come, Kate!... Good-night!” 175
The Duel 176
“Look you, sir. Is it not well done?” 181
“Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone” 187
“I have no exquisite reason” 188
“I am no fighter” 199
In Friar Laurence’s cell 210
“Romeo, arise; thou wilt be taken!” 229
“O, I am slain!” 241
The Weird Sisters 245
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!” 257
“What is this that rises like the issue of a king?” 271
“Lay on, Macduff!” 281
“The wood began to move” 282
She floated down the stream 283
“Sleeping within my orchard” 289
“How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!” 315
“Do you not come your tardy son to chide?” 319
“Contending with the fretful elements” 335
“There she stands” 339
“You heavens, give me that patience” 347
“Blow, winds! Rage! Blow!” 351
She would come to listen to Othello 360
“Ay, smile upon her” 368
“An excellent song!” 370
“Villain, be sure you prove my love untrue!” 379
“Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?” 383
“I told him what I thought” 388
The lid was lifted, and a man stepped forth 391
“Best draw my sword” 406
“Good masters, harm me not!” 409
“Thou thy worldly task hast done” 414
“Good luck! What have we here?” 422
“She commends it to your blessing” 426
“O, thus she stood when first I wooed her!” 441
By law condemned to die 445
“How comes it that you are thus estranged?” 451
“I see my son Antipholus” 457
“I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth” 459
Initials, tailpieces, etc., etc.