PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE USE OF CLASSES, AND THE

FAMILY READING CIRCLE,

BY
JOHN W. S. HOWS,
PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE.

- The Man, whom NATURE's self had made To mock herself, and Truru to imitate.

Spenser.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY.

AY.

KD 324420

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

N. APPLETON & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

TO

THE HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN,

THIS ATTEMPT TO RENDER

SHAK SPEARE

AN UNEXCEPTIONABLE CLASS BOOK,

AND AN ACCEPTABLE FAMILY READE I

18

Respectfully Dedicated,

AS
A TESTIMONIAL OF GRATEFUL ESTEEM,

BY
JOHN W. S HOWS.

CONTENTS.

HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK, . .,.
Much Ado ABOUT NOTHING, . . . .
MACBETH,
As You Like It, . . . . . .
OTHELLO, . . . . . . . .
THE TEMPEST, . . . . . .
ROMEO AND JULIET, . . . . . .
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,
KING LEAR, . . . . . . .
MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM, . . . .
JULIUS CÆSAR, . . . . . . .
TWELFTH-NIGHT; Or, What You Will,
Measure for MEASURE, . . . . .
KING JOHN, . . . . . . . .
King Henry IV, . . . . .
King Henry VIII, . . . . .

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