- 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 captures the thoughts of 18-year-old Elisha, a Jewish revolutionary fighter in Palestine, after he learns that he will be responsible for executing John Dawson, a British captive. It also shows how the terrorist policy of reprisals (capturing and killing enemy soldiers in revenge for British executions) fell on the shoulders of ordinary fighters. Elisha realizes that he is commanded to kill a human being with specific traits, both mundane (like scratching one’s nose) and profound (like betrayal of principles). But in the context of war, all these traits are erased by the overriding necessity of killing one’s enemy…