- 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
When Marilla makes up her mind to keep Anne, Matthew is delighted, calling Anne “an interesting little thing.” Marilla’s response—that she’d prefer Anne be useful—shows that even though she’s softened toward Anne, she’s still thinking of Anne in terms of what she is bringing to the household, and that “interesting” isn’t practical enough. Matthew, on the other hand, has had a different perspective on Anne from the beginning. Instead of focusing on what Anne can do for them, he senses that Anne needs something from them that she hasn’t received elsewhere—namely love. Matthew’s comment that Anne is “of the…