- 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 Anita and her cousin Carla are suddenly pulled out of class without being told why, Anita feels ready to cry. But she looks to the portrait of El Jefe (Rafael Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic) to steady herself and remind herself to be strong and brave.
This speaks to Trujillo’s success in controlling information. In fact, Trujillo is a tyrannical and repressive dictator whose corruption and abuses have lost him the support of much of the Dominican population. However, part of his autocratic power is the power to control his image—he forces the populace to hang portraits…