- 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
The old man, Blacky’s father, calls Blacky a “gutless wonder” for being afraid of a dangerous storm while they were fishing in a boat on the ocean. As Blacky has previously stated, a “gutless wonder” is the worst thing a boy in his town can be called, because the expectation is that all boys should be courageous and tough, no matter the circumstances. So to be called this name by his own father is incredibly shameful for Blacky. Blacky’s feeling of shame shows how impactful and personal his community’s expectations of masculinity are for him, and foreshadows how hard it…