PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,

SHAKSPEARE FOR THE YOUNG

AND FOR

READING IN FAMILIES:

BEING A SELECTION OF THE BEST PLAYS

(17 in number)

Cleared from all objectionable passages, and occasionally abridged without injury to the plot;

WITH SHORT EXPLANATORY NOTES.

By CHARLES

WORDSWORTH, D.C.L. ·

BISHOP OF ST. ANDREW'S.

'On Avon's banks, where flowers eternal blow,
It is not meet that any weed should grow.'

POPE.

London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65 Cornhill.