dBooks desire

" But after that he has to put from
him his precious book, for the incidents of the drama demand his very
serious attention.
Dismissed from the Stranger, however, the stage-book probably
reappears in the afterpiece. In how many dramatic works figures this
useful property--the "book of the play"? Shakespeare has by no means
disdained its use. Imogen is discovered reading in her bed in the
second act of "Cymbeline." She inquires the hour of the lady in
attendance:
Almost midnight, madam.
IMOGEN. I have read three hours, then; mine eyes are weak.
Fold down the leaf where I have left! To bed!
By-and-by, when Iachimo steals from his trunk to "note the chamber,"
he observes the book, examines it, and proclaims its nature:
She hath been reading late
The tale of Tereus! here's the leaf turned down
Where Philomel gave up.
Brutus reads within his tent:
Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turned down
Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.
How ill this taper burns! Ha! Who comes here?
And thereupon enters the ghost of Caesar, and appoints a meeting at
Philippi.


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