- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
As the book reaches an end, the pace becomes faster. Saul describes how he spends his twenties: drinking, working simple, low-paying jobs, and getting into fights. His life isn’t exactly miserable, but it’s never particularly happy. As Saul puts it, the world glitters but never shines.
It’s worth thinking more closely about what Saul means by using this figurative language. In one sense, he’s saying that the happiness he finds in life is always short-lived or not particularly strong—as fleeting as a dim, glimmering light. While he is living with the Kelly family, by contrast, Saul’s life has shone with…