- 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
Francie’s learning to read becomes a revelation, as the world opens up to her through her ability to read about it. Smith describes how Francie compensates for her lonely childhood by learning about friendship and intimacy through reading. Not only do books provide Francie with companionship and the ability to access experiences unavailable to her, reading also makes her ambitious. Francie’s commitment to read one book per day turns her into an auto-didact—that is, she seeks to teach herself all of the things she wants to know about the world and provide herself with the instruction that she doesn’t get…