text:  In "Twelfth Night " the "scene" is a city in Illyria and the sea-coast near it;--in "Measure for Measure " VIENNA;--in "Much Ado about Nothing " MESSINA;--in the "Midsummer Night's dream " ATHENS AND A WOOD NOT FAR FROM IT;--in "Love's Labour's Lost " NAVARRE;--in the "Merchant of Venice " PARTLY AT VENICE AND PARTLY AT BELMONT THE SEAT OF PORTIA ON THE CONTINENT (understand OF ITALY;)--in "As You Like It " THE SCENE LIES FIRST NEAR OLIVER'S HOUSE; AFTERWARDS PARTLY IN THE USURPER'S COURT AND PARTLY IN THE FOREST OF ARDEN;--in "All's Well that End's Well " PARTLY IN FRANCE AND PARTLY IN TUSCANY;--in the "Taming of the Shrew " SOMETIMES IN PADUA AND SOMETIMES IN PETRUCHIO'S HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY;--in "The Winter's Tale " (a comedy wherein only two of the personages die--one eaten ) THE SCENE IS SOMETIMES IN SICILIA SOMETIMES IN BOHEMIA;--in the "Comedy of Errors " at EPHESUS;--Last of all in the "Merry Wives of Windsor " in WINDSOR and the parts adjacent