- 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
This Biblical story of Rachel (who is immortalized as the archetype of a mother mourning for her lost children) ties the book together, and shows that, even in the moments where he approached death, Ishmael believed, based on Biblical precedents, that he might be saved. Ishmael is orphaned because the crew of the Pequod, his family, has gone down with the ship. He no longer has Ahab as his leader and father - he no longer has Queequeg as a brother (and possible beloved, in some interpretations). Ishmael is indeed all alone, and he has "escaped" to relate to the…