Preface to Shakespeare
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1. Front matter2. Front matter (continued 2)3. SELECTED NOTES FROM SOME OF THE PLAYS4. ACT I. SCENE i. (I. i. 7-9.)5. ACT I. SCENE ii. (I. i. 51.)6. ACT II. SCENE ix. (II. iii. 11-12.)7. ACT III. SCENE i. (III. i. 13-15.)8. ACT III. SCENE i. (III. i. 16-17.)9. ACT III. SCENE i. (III. i. 32-4.)10. ACT III. SCENE i. (III. i. 36-8.)11. ACT III. SCENE ii. (III. i. 137-8.)12. ACT IV. SCENE viii. (iv. iii. 4-5.)13. ACT IV. SCENE xiii. (IV. V. 1.)14. ACT V. SCENE vii. (V. i. 448.)15. ACT V. SCENE viii. (v. i. 479 foll.)16. HENRY IV17. ACT. II. SCENE iv. (II. iii. 27-8.)18. KING LEAR19. ACT I. SCENE ii. (I. i. 181 foll.)20. ACT I. SCENE iii. (I. ii. 25.)21. ACT I. SCENE iii. (I. ii. 26-8.)22. ACT I. SCENE iv. (l. iii. 92.)23. ACT I. SCENE vi. (1. v. 34.)24. ACT I. CHORUS. (II. PROLOGUE.)25. ACT II. SCENE vi. (ii. vi. 15.)26. ACT III. SCENE i. (III. i. 2.)27. ACT III. SCENE iii. (III. i. 183.)28. ACT III. SCENE viii. (III. v. 84.)29. ACT IV. SCENE iii. (IV. iii. 2-3.)30. ACT V. SCENE i. (V. i. 3.)31. ACT V. SCENE v. (v. iii. 229.)32. ACT II. SCENE ii. (II. i. 114-17.)33. ACT II. SCENE iv. (II. ii.)34. ACT V. SCENE vi. (v. ii. 63-5.)