- 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
Here, Chike has just followed his mother, Sarah’s advice and refused a piece of yam that a “heathen” neighbor has offered him. The neighbor is offended, not only because Chike refused, but also because of Chike’s low social status, he shouldn’t have felt comfortable asserting herself to her. At this moment, readers realize that the extent to which Sarah’s Christian values have broken from traditional social structure is much deeper than merely parenting her children in an unconventional way. Sarah—and Chike, by extension, as he is her son—is an Osu, or a member of the lowest social class. Therefore, Chike…