Sweet Silvery Sayings of Shakespeare on the Softer Sex (Heftet (myke permer))

The anonymous 'Old Soldier' who compiled this anthology of passages from Shakespeare, published in 1877, states in the preface that he was inspired to make his selection by a passage in The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character, by the now largely forgotten Victorian essayist James Hain Friswell: 'If a man wanted to make a sugar-sweet book ...let him go through the plays of the great national Poet, and make an extract of those passages wherein he has exalted woman.' In thirty-three sections (four plays are omitted), extensive quotations present examples of 'exalted woman' and give an insight into the taste of the educated middle class in the mid-Victorian period.

1. King Richard III; 2. Romeo and Juliet; 3. Julius Caesar; 4. Troilus and Cressida; 5. Antony and Cleopatra; 6. Hamlet; 7. Cymbeline; 8. The Comedy of Errors; 9. King Lear; 10. King John; 11. Coriolanus; 12. King Henry VIII; 13. First Part of King Henry IV; 14. Second Part of King Henry IV; 15. First Part of King Henry VI; 16. Third Part of King Henry VI; 17. King Richard II; 18. Pericles, Prince of Tyre; 19. Titus Andronicus; 20. The Tempest; 21. Two Gentlemen of Verona; 22. Measure for Measure; 23. Twelfth Night; 24. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 25. Much Ado About Nothing; 26. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 27. Love's Labour's Lost; 28. The Merchant of Venice; 29. Othello; 30. As You Like It; 31. All's Well that Ends Well; 32. The Taming of the Shrew; 33. The Winter's Tale; Notes.