THE

DRAMATIC WORKS

O F

SHAKSPEARE.

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

Page 9, line 15, for parellel read parallel

81, line 18, for you read your

IN VOL. I.

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 read
you
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-stick.

Page 105, line 12, read then for them

your

143, line read They for Thy
13,
153, line 11, for
you read
349, line 30, for rabbet read rabbit
349, Note, for persons read perjon

VOL. II.

THESEUS, Duke of Athens.

EGEUS, Father to HERMIA.

LYSANDER, in love with HERMIA.

DEMETRIUS, in love with HERMIA.

PHILOSTRATE, Mafter 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.

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 feafon of its first representation, is supposed to have been written about the year 1595; the first 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,"