- 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
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- Richard II
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- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Druse’s father gave this admonition on the morning that Druse left to join the Union army. This statement not only conveys Druse’s father’s concept of duty, which he has instilled in his son, it also becomes the refrain that ultimately helps Druse to decide he must kill his father. Before he pulls the trigger, his father’s words echo in his memory like a “divine mandate” and give him the assurance that although what he is doing is horrific, it must be done. By killing his father, Druse also obeyed his last and final command to him. Though ending his life…