- 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
After Patrick returns home from work and during his post-work ritual, Mary is eager to submit to her husband’s desire for quiet, despite the fact that she has been home alone and has likely had no one to talk to all day. Patrick’s presence is a delight for Mary, both because of her loneliness and because she idolizes her husband’s masculinity. She “luxuriates” in his masculinity, perceiving Patrick’s “warm male glow” to be as powerful as the sun. Mary implicitly perceives herself and her femininity to be as weak and as subordinate as a mere human compared to a sun…