The Shakespeare Story-Book
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Уильям Шекспир. The Shakespeare Story-Book
INTRODUCTION
The Tempest
The Magician’s Isle
The Shipwrecked Wanderers
The King’s Son
Mysterious Music
“Though the Seas threaten, they are merciful”
Two Gentlemen of Verona
“Now let us take our Leave”
“Who is Silvia?”
False to his Friend
“Alas, poor Lady, desolate and left!”
What befell in the Forest
Much Ado about Nothing
“Dear Lady Disdain”
A Plain-dealing Villain
“Cupid’s Crafty Arrow”
The Night before the Wedding
“Done to Death by Slanderous Tongues”
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
Helena and Hermia
Playing the Lion
The Magic Flower
Puck in Mischief
The Merchant of Venice
A Merry Bond
The Three Caskets
“Revenge!”
A Pound of Flesh
The Two Rings
As You Like It
Oliver and Orlando
Rosalind and Celia
In the Forest of Arden
The Shepherd Youth
The Taming of the Shrew
A Rough Courtship
The Marriage, and After
Twelfth Night
Orsino’s Envoy
A Dream of Greatness
The Challenge
Yellow Stockings
Sebastian and Viola
Romeo and Juliet
The Masked Ball
Mercutio
“Banished!”
Comfort and Counsel
The Palace of Dim Night
Macbeth
The Weird Sisters
At the Castle of Macbeth
The Guest at the Banquet
The Witches’ Cavern
Birnam Wood
Hamlet
A Vision at Midnight
Ophelia
“Sweet Bells jangled, out of Tune and Harsh”
“The Mouse-trap”
“Rosemary for Remembrance”
The King’s Wager
King Lear
The Dowerless Daughter
Goneril and Regan
Night and Storm
Othello
“Honest Iago”
Well met at Cyprus
The Handkerchief
No Way but This
Cymbeline
A Princess of Britain
How Iachimo won his Wager
The Cave of Belarius
Fidele
The Winter’s Tale
At the Palace of Leontes
The Oracle Speaks
A Queen of Curds and Cream
The Oracle Fulfilled
The Comedy of Errors
A Walk through Ephesus
Confusion worse Confounded
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There was once a lonely island far away in the midst of a wide sea. Only four beings lived on this island: an elderly man called Prospero, noble, grave and learned; his daughter Miranda; and two attendants. One of these attendants was a beautiful and dainty spirit called Ariel, the other a sullen monster called Caliban. For Prospero had more than worldly learning; he knew the art of magic, and by his mighty spells he could control not only the spirits of light and darkness, but also the forces of Nature.
No travellers ever came to the island, and since the day when Miranda had been brought thither, a little baby girl, she had never seen the face of any man except her father. Peacefully the years slipped by, and Miranda had grown into a beautiful young maiden, when one day a terrible storm of thunder and lightning burst over the island. In the midst of the tempest a noble vessel seemed to be sinking, and Miranda ran to entreat her father that, if by his magic arts he had put the waves into such an uproar, he would now allay them.
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At that instant there was a peal of thunder and a flash of lightning. Ariel, in the form of a harpy, a hideous bird of prey, flew in and flapped his wings over the table, and immediately the banquet vanished.
“You are three men of sin, whom Destiny has cast upon this island because you are quite unfit to live among men,” he said, addressing Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio.
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