- 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 the final lines of the story, the father observes how his son becomes less tense after realizing that he isn’t actually going to die. Relaxing emotionally as well as physically, the boy unleashes his feelings freely. On the day of the fever, he sought to conduct himself at the height of stoic maturity; he now returns to a childish disinhibition, grappling openly with his wayward emotions. The previous day’s ordeal severely taxed his self-control, and he will perhaps need time to reestablish his prior composure. It is likely, however, that like a muscle that twinges the day after an…