- 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
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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
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Bierce returns to the present, in the moments after the order was giving for Farquhar’s hanging to commence. Farquhar loses consciousness briefly before awaking in the river below and attempting to outrun shooting Union soldiers. This moment harks back to the ticking watch, and earlier examples of Farquhar’s senses becoming sharper than normal. It’s also a firm signal that the story is moving into the realm of Farquhar’s hallucination, and the the reader is seeing the world form his point of view rather than a more objective reality. Bierce remains matter-of-fact about this sudden switch—in keeping with the story’s realist…