- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
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In this passage, Joyce establishes Mrs Kearney’s wealth, as well as her lack of power compared to wealthy men around her. Despite her “high-class” education and her impressive piano-playing, Mrs Kearney’s musical talent is only useful for attracting a husband—choosing a spouse was the only way she could actively determine what kind of life she would live. The “natural” stubbornness that Joyce describes, and that will play a part in how she acts in the story, can be read multiple ways: the reader might see her stubbornness as an inherent personal quality or as a response to her lack of…