Excerpts from the Book 'Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare':

... Criticism has been exhausted upon them, and the finest minds of England, Germany, and America have devoted their powers to an elucidation of their worth. Shakespeare ...
... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 VIOLA AS CESARIO MEETS OLIVIA . . . . . . . . 76 YOU TOO HAVE BEEN IN LOVE . . . . . . . . . . 78 CLAUDIA AND HERO ...
... kindly as long as they did his bidding, and he exercised his power over them wisely and well. One creature alone he found it necessary to treat with ...
... she said to the Duke, and to Orlando, I will have no husband if you be not he.. So Orlando and Rosalind were married, and Oliver and Celia, and they ...
... a servingman and took service with the King. The King had now two friends-the Earl of Kent, whom he only knew as his servant, and his Fool, who was ...
... lover, and a good husband, and he in her a true and loving wife. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. In Sicily is a town called Messina, which is the scene ...
... ducats for conspiring against Hero. Leonato was not present at this examination, but he was nevertheless now thoroughly convinced Of Hero's innocence. ...
... to call Juliet, and to dress her for her wedding but she would not wake, and at last the nurse cried out suddenly-. Alas. alas. help. help. my ...
... asked Hamlet, when he had greeted his friend kindly. I came, my lord, to see your father's funeral.. I think it was to see my mother's wedding, ...
... I leave Britain again to-morrow.. So the trunk was carried into Imogen's room, and that night she went to bed and to sleep. When she was fast asleep, ...
... henceforth known as Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse. Let alone, AEgeon found his home too dreary to dwell in, and traveled for five ...
... before Dromio could reach the police station he met his real master, who had never been arrested, and did not understand what he meant by offering ...
... wind warm your clothes as a valet would.. Off with you. said Timon but Apemantus stayed a while longer and told him he had a passion for extremes, ...
... jealousy the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.. Iago having given jealousy one blow, proceeded to feed it with the remark ...
... FOR MEASURE. More centuries ago than I care to say, the people of Vienna were governed too mildly. The reason was that the reigning Duke ...
... mean man. He had promised to marry a girl called Mariana, and now would have nothing to say to her, because her dowry had been lost. So poor Mariana lived ...
... said, What was the matter, boy.. I remembered, fibbed Julia, that I was charged to give a ring to the Lady Silvia, and that I did not.. Well, ...
... an idea struck her, and she said, Take this purse of gold for yourself. I will give Diana three thousand crowns if she will help me to carry out this ...
... - V. 3. AMBITION. Dreams, indeed, are ambition for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of ...
... Caesar - I. 2. SELF-RELIANCE. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope ...