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WHITTINGHAM's 



Cabinet etiitian 



SHAKSPEARE s PLAYS, 



ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM THE 



TEXT OF JOHNSON AND STEEVENS ; 



Embellished with 230 Engravings on Wood, 



INCLUDING 



THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN—A BUST OF THE IMMORTAL BARD— 

 A VIEW OF Tllh HOUSE IN WHICH HE WAS BORN — 

 AND A CORRECT REPRESENTATION OF THE JUBILEE PROCESSION 

 IN WHICH HE WAS COMMEMORATED BY GARRICK : 



TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, 



an €^^Vi^ 



ON THE 



LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SHAKSPEARE, 



INCLUDING THE 



OPINIONS OF HAZLITT, SCHLEGEL, DRAKE, &c. 



WRITTEN EXPRESSLT FOR THIS EDITION BY JOHN BRITTON, F.S.A. 



AND 



A PREFACE BY DR. JOHNSON: 



THERE IS A 



^lo^sarial Ixxtit): to i\)t TOorfe, 



WITH A CRITIQUE ON EACH PLAY, BY JOHNSON OR STEEVENS. 



1. As You Like it. 



S. Merchant of Venice. 



3. Merry Wives of Wind- 



sor. 



4. Macbeth. 



5. Tempest. 



6. Taming of the Shrew. 



7. King Henry V. 



8. All's Well that Ends 

 Well. 



9. Two Gentlemen of Ve- 



rona. 



10. King Richard III. 

 31. Antony & Cleopatra. 



CONTENTS : 



12. Much Ado about No- 

 thing. 



13. Romeo and Juliet. 



14. Twelfth-Night. 



15. Hamlet. 



16. King Henry VIII. 

 17- King Lear. 

 18. Love's Labour's Lost. 

 ig. King Henry IV. Part I. 



20. Knig Henry IV. Part 

 II. 



21. Coriolanus. 



22. Othello. 



23. Winter's Tale. 



24. Midsummer-Night's 

 Dream. 



25. King John. 



26. Measure for Measure. 



Comedy of Errors. 

 King Richard 11. 



29. K. Henry VI. Part T. 



30. K. Henry VI. Part If. 



31. K. Henry VI. Part II I. 



32. Troilus and Cressida. 



33. Julius C?esar. 



34. Titus Andronicus. 



35. Timon of Athens. 

 .^6. Pericles. 

 37. Cymbeiine. 



Each Play may be had separately, Price One Shilling. 



No. 38, containing theVignette Titles, Life, Gloss arj^ &c. One Shilling & Sixpence, 

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