- 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
Before Alcestis dies, the chorus huddles outside of Admetos’s palace, waiting for news. Finally, Alcestis’s faithful maid emerges and tearfully informs them that Alcestis is near death. The maid makes the wise observation that Admetos will not understand his loss of Alcestis until it’s too late. So, the humble maid displays a far better understanding of the nature of mortality and its embitterment of life than the king, sheltered from suffering, has ever needed to. The maid also observes the strength of Alcestis’s “destiny,” which can’t be resisted. She accepts the inevitability of her fate, in contrast to husband, whose…