--_Introduction._
No one can examine these volumes and fail to be impressed (p. 206)
with the conscientious accuracy and scholarly completeness with
which they are edited.
H.H. FURNESS.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The Merchant of Venice.
Edited by W.J. Rolfe.
American Book. .56
The plot of The Merchant of Venice is composed of two distinct
stories: that of the bond, and that of the caskets. Both these
fables are found in the Gesta Romanorum, a Latin compilation of
allegorical tales, which had been translated into English as
early as the time of Henry VI.... The Merchant of Venice is one
of Shakespeare's most perfect works: popular to an extraordinary
degree.... Shylock the Jew is one of the inimitable masterpieces
of characterization which are to be found only in
Shakespeare.--_Introduction._
SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM.
A Midsummer-Night's Dream.
Doubleday. 5.00
The Midsummer-Night's Dream is the first play which exhibits the
imagination of Shakespeare in all its fervid and creative power;
for though ... it may be pronounced the offspring of youth and
inexperience, it will ever in point of fancy be considered as
equal to any subsequent drama of the poet.
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