MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Act V. Scene V..

LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST. Act IV.

MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. Act III. Scene I.

Scene III.

MERCHANT OF VENICE. Act II. Scene V.

AS YOU LIKE IT. Act I. Scene II.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Act III. Scene II.
TAMING OF THE SHREW. Induction. Scene II. .
THE WINTER'S TALE. Act III. Scene II. .

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. Act V. Scene I.
MACBETH. Act III. Scene IV.

KING JOHN. Act III. Scene I.
KING RICHARD II. Act IV. Scene I.

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KING HENRY VI. Part III.
KING RICHARD III. Act I. Scene II.
KING HENRY VIII. Act III. Scene II..
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. Act II. Scene II.
TIMON OF ATHENS. Act I. Scene II.
CORIOLANUS. Act I. Scene I.

Act I. Scene I..

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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Act III. Scene VI..

CYMBELINE. Act II. Scene IV..

TITUS ANDRONICUS. Act III. Scene I.

PERICLES. Act II. Scene V. .

KING LEAR. Act V.
ROMEO AND JULIET.
HAMLET. Act III.
OTHELLO. Act II.

Scene III.

Act II. Scene VI.
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THE TEMPEST. ACT III. SCENE I.

Miranda offers to bear the logs for Ferdinand-Prospero watching them behind.

HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE TEMPEST.

No one has hitherto been fortunate enough to discover the romance, on which Shakespeare founded this play. Mr. Collins, the poet, issaid indeed to have informed Mr. T. Warton, that it was founded on an old romance called 'Aurelio and Isabella,' printed in Italian, Spanish, French and English in 1588; but as no such work could be discovered by the acute and learned writer to whom this information was communicated, it was reasonably inferred by him, that Collins, in consequence of the failure of memory during his last illness, had substituted the name of one novel for another.

It seems probable, that the event, which immediately gave rise to the composition of this drama, was the voyage of Sir George Somers, who was shipwrecked on the Bermudas in 1609, and whose adventures were given to the public by Silvester Jourdan, one of his crew, with the following title: 'A Dis covery of the Bermudas, otherwise called the Isle of Divels by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and Captayne Newport, and divers others.' In this publication Jourdan informs us, that 'the islands of the Bermudas, as every man knoweth, that hath heard or read of them, were never inhabited by any Christian or heathen people; but ever esteemed and reputed a most prodigious and enchanted place, affording nothing but gusts, stormes and foul weather; which made