- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
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- Henry IV, Part 1
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- Love's Labor's Lost
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Right after the wounded lieutenant loses his temper and refuses to enter the hospital, Crane jumps ahead to the lieutenant’s return home. The first line of this excerpt tells readers that the lieutenant has lost his arm after all, despite the bullying surgeon’s insistence that he wouldn’t. The ironic way in which Crane breaks the news is worth scrutiny; it’s as if he’s summarizing a “story” of valor, told to eager listeners. In reality, however, Crane’s tale was an inglorious one filled with an antihero’s blunders and humiliation. With this irony in mind, readers begin to wonder why, exactly, the…