- 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 quote occurs in the portion of Milton’s argument in which he claims pre-publication censorship like that practiced under Parliament’s Licensing Order is a purely Catholic creation, and it is important because it not only underscores Milton’s (and Parliament’s) dislike of the Catholic Church, but it also reflects Milton’s opinion that books are living things and extensions of their authors. Here, Milton claims that no civilized society throughout history other than the Holy Roman Empire, and now England, has ever practiced pre-publication licensing. Censorship like this, Milton says, came out of “the most antichristian council,” or the Council of Trent…