- 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
When Olunde listens to the drums and calmly explains that the change in the rhythm signifies Elesin's death, Jane screams that Olunde is a strange savage. Again, this speaks to the different ways that the English and the Yoruba think of death. As far as Jane believes, death is something bad to be feared—and it shouldn't be something that happens to someone on their terms. It's something fundamentally unknowable and uncontrollable. For the Yoruba, on the other hand, death is something that's accepted as a fact of life. Especially for someone like Elesin, who is supposed to commit ritual suicide…