iv ADDRESS. affections, and taught by the force of feeling when to forego the forms of propriety for the essence of it." To embody such conceptions-to give to each exquisite creation a "local habitation" in the mind's eye-is the object of the present work. Artists of the highest reputation have been engaged to produce characteristic portraits of the great Shakspeare Heroines, to show them "not mere poetical abstractions, nor, as they have been termed, mere 'abstractions of the affections': But common clay ta'en from the common earth, CONTENTS. SUBJECT. MIRANDA JULIA SILVIA. MRS. FORD MRS. PAGE ANNE PAGE OLIVIA . A. Egg A. Egg.. J. W. Wright . J. W. Wright. J. W. Wright. Mids. Night's Dream. HELENA KATHERINE MOPSA W. P. Frith J. W. Wright. A. Egg A. Egg PERDITA J. Hayter LADY MACBETH. K. Meadows All's Well. Taming of the Shrew. Winter's Tale. Winter's Tale. Macbeth. PLAY. King John. King Henry IV. King Henry V. J. W. Wright . King Henry VI. Coriolanus. Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. A. Johnston. J. W. Wright. K. Meadows J. W. Wright. J. W. Wright. A. Johnston . J. Hayter J. Hayter A. Egg. . |