- 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
This is passage occurs when Milton argues against Parliament’s efforts to remove evil from the world through the censorship of offensive books, and it is significant because it identifies “reason” as a divine “gift” from God. Milton resents Parliament’s efforts to decide for him which books are appropriate to read, and he believes that God has given him the ability to “choose” for himself that which is evil and whether to stay away. God has decreed no “particular law or prescription” in instances such as this, Milton maintains, and has left one to their own “temperance,” or discretion and self-restraint…