Contents: I. There is no being certain whether the birds of prey in a comparison are those in an omen (pp.9-24); II. Whether the Curse works its fell effect upon the House is moot though urgent (pp.24-64); III. The likeness between the tableaux extends to the cloth strewn and the murder robe displayed (pp.64-113); IV. The male-as-female conventions led Shakespeare and Aeschylus to depictions of algolagnia (pp.113-143). Notes. Indices. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.