Today's free book is The Shakespeare Story-Book by Mary Macleod (1902), with illustrations by Gordon Browne. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.
The book is available at Project Gutenberg (I have not checked for other online sources). There's also a free audiobook at LibriVox.
Table of Contents
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