- 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
The relationship between Duffy and Mrs. Sinico becomes increasingly intimate until one night, she makes physical contact. Even though the touch is seemingly innocent—she presses Duffy’s hand to her cheek—Duffy interprets this action as a sexual overture, and he cuts off the relationship. His life then mostly goes back to normal. Here, though, we get a hint that Duffy was affected by the breakup, as his habit of regular writing has slowed. Additionally, the sentence he wrote after breaking with Mrs. Sinico is significant in a few ways. First, it is written in the form of a profound moral saying…