- 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
At the beginning of the novel, the Count is on trial in 1922 as a former member of the aristocracy. He charms the gallery with his jokes, but one of the Bolshevik Secretaries presiding over his trial comments that he is not surprised the Count is so charming. The Secretary’s first sentence exemplifies the class struggle that serves as the backdrop of the novel. Here, the Secretary criticizes the Count (who has never held a job) and the rest of the aristocracy because they have led lives of leisure at the expense of the lower classes. While history demonstrates that…