- 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
As she prepares to conclude her memoir, Dillard returns to the relationship between the mind and the world outside herself, something that has preoccupied her throughout the book. In this quotation, focusing on setting and place helps her to reconcile reality and consciousness: setting can be understood simultaneously as a physical space, the theater for a person’s memories, and the cornerstone of her intellectual development. A person’s life is a “maze,” according to Dillard, because it’s impossible to know in advance where it will take them—people move from one setting to another in part because of willed action, but also…