[Pg ii] [Pg ii] [Pg iii] [Pg iii] THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J. A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. XVII POETRY AND DRAMA [Pg iv] [Pg iv] [Pg v] [Pg v] Table of Contents Portrait of Molière Frontispiece Goethe (Continued)