- 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 passage explains Baldwin’s provocative contention that the 1954 bill outlawing segregated public schools was done only for political reasons, so that America would look good on the world stage (specifically, to prevent African nations from turning to America’s Cold War enemies). Calling American goodwill “fatuous” (or foolish and pointless), Baldwin’s critique of the country’s inability to address “hard problems” underscores the United States’ pathetic failure to address racial issues on the human grounds of love and compassion. Rather, America seems to have only ever confronted such problems if the resolutions present some kind of benefit to the power structures…