THE

WOMEN OF

SHAKESPEARE

BY

FRANK HARRIS

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

MCMXII

Mitchell Kennerley

431

CHAPTER

I.

II.

III.

The Women of Shakespeare

INTRODUCTION

Tamora: Margaret: Joan of Arc

His Wife: Adriana, The Scold: Katharina, The

Shrew Constance, The Termagant

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

IV. Idealistic Studies of His Love :-Juliet: Portia
Beatrice Rosalind: Viola

The Salve to Vanity: How Women Woo!-

The Midsummer Night's Dream: The Two

Gentlemen of Verona: All's Well

V. The Great Photograph of His Love: Love's

Labour's Lost: Rosaline Again

VI.

The Sonnets: The Lover's Complaint: Shake-

speare's Dark Mistress

All's Well that Ends Well: Helena and Bertram:

Mary Fitton and Lord Herbert

Julius Cæsar: Hamlet: Othello

Lear and Timon: Erotic Mania

Troilus and Cressida False

Heart's Blood of Beauty;'

Soul

INDEX

XII.

XI. Antony and Cleopatra: Cleopatra - Fitton :

"Witchery joins with Beauty, Lust with Both!"?

Coriolanus: Volumnia, The Portrait of Shake-

speare's Mother

XIII. Shakespeare's Daughter Judith as Marina, Per-

dita, and Miranda

XIV.

Cressid

"The

"" Love's Invisible

A Last Word about Shakespeare's Passion: The

Passionate Pilgrime: King Henry VIII.

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