- 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
In Alcestis’s farewell speech, Euripides portrays Alcestis as a surprisingly self-aware, self-possessed character, even in the face of imminent death. Though she fears death and dreads leaving her children, Alcestis leverages this moment to make a final request of her husband—namely that he refrain from remarrying, since a stepmother would be unlikely to treat her children as they deserve. More significantly, Alcestis recognizes and names her own courageous choice to die, acknowledging that she did not have to do it. Far from being a passive, self-sacrificing stock figure, Alcestis willingly surrenders her life. She knows that she could have led…