- 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
In this chapter, Lewis discusses the Christian practice of marriage, and argues that marriage is one of the most moral acts a human being can engage in. In this passage, Lewis defends marriage from one of its most persistent criticisms: that it’s impossible to stay “in love” with one’s partner for a lifetime. Lewis’s response to this criticism is to agree with it—of course it’s impossible to retain the same passion for one’s lover for decades. However, this doesn’t mean that marriage is flawed. Rather, Lewis argues, the beauty of marriage is that unites together young, passionate lovers, and slowly…