- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
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- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- The Winter's Tale
One important theme in this story is memory—both how it imbues life with meaning and the multifaceted way it can resurface to impact the present. The narrator’s recollection of the morning spent at the beach is remarkable, in part, because she spent the majority of the time lost in the memory of the day she accidentally brushed the wrist of the boy she loves in the stairs at school. And after witnessing the interactions between the family of bathers, the narrator returns to her memory, using it as a shield against the unpleasantness she sees all around her.
Yet, as…