- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
After Harper tells Joe that she's leaving him forever, she offers a strange explanation for her actions. Harper doesn't know exactly what's going to happen to her now, but she feels that it's vitally important that she keep moving forward somehow. Harper characterizes her desire to keep moving as a basic human emotion--the desire for "painful progress." All people, she suggests, experience the pains of change as they move through life, simultaneously mourning what they've lost while also looking ahead to the future.
"Painful progress" might as well be the name of Kushner's play. Kushner is quick to criticize those…