- 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
In the days leading up to Eilis’s journey to Brooklyn, she regrets having agreed to leave home. When Tóibín writes, “The arrangements being made, all the bustle and talk, would be better if they were for someone else,” he reveals that Eilis understands the overall value of what she’s doing but still doesn’t actually want to do it. That is, she recognizes that the “bustle and talk” surrounding her upcoming migration is indeed exciting, but she has trouble appreciating it because she has decided that she’d rather stay home. That she would prefer to stay in her childhood home with…