- 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 takes place during another one of the Azaire’s dinnertime conversations with Stephen. Isabelle has challenged René’s power and authority by sticking up for Stephen, and René is determined to make Isabelle pay for her disregard of his standing. Again, René speaks to Isabelle in a condescending way, calling the piano song she heard in town a “minstrel,” implying that the tune must be a folksong because Isabelle is too simple and ignorant to appreciate the art of classical music. Even his use of the words “my dear” and “creature” serve to make Isabelle appear small, weak, and foreign…