- 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
Grace is recounting the advice of her lawyer, Mr. MacKenzie, in advance of her trial. MacKenzie’s dismissal of Grace’s version of events as incoherent and unbelievable seems to represent the tendency of society at large to cast women as irrational and overly emotional. The fact that MacKenzie implicitly characterizes Grace’s way of storytelling as the wrong thing shows that even though he may be interested in helping Grace avoid a death sentence, MacKenzie is equally as interested in manipulating her words so that she presents the version of events he deems it right for her to tell. This is significant…