Collects selections from William Shakespeare's plays that continue to resonate with readers, including excerpts from "Hamlet," "Henry V," "The Merchant of Venice," and "Romeo and Juliet."
Introduction Poems "All the World's a Stage" from As You Like It "O, for a Muse of Fire" from Henry V "We Were, Fair Queen" from The Winter's Tale "Over Hill, Over Dale" from A Midsummer Night's Dream "Round About the Cauldron Go" from Macbeth "Under the Greenwood Tree" from As You Like It "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" "O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" from Romeo and Juliet "Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent" from Richard III "If Music Be the Food of Love" from Twelfth Night "How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon this Bank!" from The Merchant of Venice "O, She Doth Teach the Torches to Burn Bright!" from Romeo and Juliet "O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?" from Twelfth Night "What Light Is Light, if Silvia Be Not Seen?" from The Two Gentlemen of Verona "But Soft, What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?" from Romeo and Juliet "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" "The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet" from A Midsummer Night's Dream "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" "Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Deaths" from Julius Caesar Once More Unto the Breach" from Henry V "All Furnish'd, All in Arms" from Henry IV, Part 1 "The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain'd" from The Merchant of Venice "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears" from Julius Caesar "All That Glitters Is Not Gold" from The Merchant of Venice "That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold "To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question" from Hamlet "Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks!" from King Lear "To-morrow, and To-morrow, and To-morrow" from Macbeth "Why, Man, He Doth Bestride the Narrow World" from Julius Caesar "If We Shadows Have Offended" from A Midsummer Night's Dream "Our Revels Now Are Ended" from The Tempest
