- 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
While Ovid watches Tomis’s shaman perform a hunting ceremony in the birchwoods, he wonders if the Child, whom he’s just seen for the first time, watches them through the trees. Ovid’s pondering whether the Child recognizes that he is human implies that humans are unique among all the animals and organisms in the forest. This reflects Ovid’s perception of human beings as special and distinct, wholly separate from the rest of nature. Ironically, Ovid correctly guesses that the Child does not understand his own humanity, but wrongly assumes that he can teach the Child to see himself as human, rather…