- 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
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- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
Throughout All for Love, Cleopatra has been jealous of Antony’s legally-wed wife Octavia and expressed her grief at her own status as mistress rather than wife. However, just before her suicide, Cleopatra increasingly confines those fears and jealousies to the earthly realm, where “dull Octavia” will mourn the now-dead Antony. With Antony dead, the world of the living seems to have little appeal for Cleopatra. Instead, her mind turns to her “nobler fate” in the world after death. She refers to her and Antony’s joint suicide as their “spousals,” suggesting that their death is a kind of wedding. Moreover…