The limitations of the Elizabethan Theatre-How the plays were performed Shakespeare's idea of good acting-The use of the soliloquy-The one-sexed stage-Shakespeare's plays and the English theatre-Educational value of Shakespeare-How to read the plays-A Midsummer Night's Dream-Romeo and Juliet-Structural balance of the plays-Twelfth Night— Julius Cæsar-Macbeth-Lady Macbeth-Banquo's Murder.