- 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
Lee has asked to marry Francie him and she has accepted his proposal. Lee is the first man who has ever expressed romantic and sexual interest in Francie. She accepts his proposal not because she loves him—she hardly knows him—but because she longs for the romantic fantasy of love about which she has only read. She is also eager to embrace her womanhood and independence, and falling in love is a key aspect of that. Smith illustrates how neither Lee nor Francie understands the commitment of marriage, which is why Lee asks for her hand with such levity. Similarly, Francie…