- 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
As a teenager, Cudjo’s daughter Seely gets a fever and dies suddenly. This is a devastating event for her parents, who mourn her for years. It’s also a turning point for Cudjo’s family, which until now has been moderately prosperous and deeply happy, but will continue to decline until all the children are dead. Personifying the idea of death, Cudjo describes it as having come “in de ship with us”; he associates death with the Middle Passage and slavery. In the years after the Civil War, Cudjo focuses on building a new life and putting aside these injustices. When his…