- 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
These are the last two sentences of the book, which the magistrate speaks after noting that winter is on its way again. His settlement (over which he’s regained leadership) is mostly deserted, and those who remain fear an imminent barbarian invasion. The magistrate then passes a scene similar to that which he’s often dreamed about—children building a castle in the snow—but he cannot find any meaning in this encounter, and so leaves it feeling “stupid” and continues on his way.
That the magistrate continues to press on along a road that guarantees no destination—that he forges on surviving without any…