- 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
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- 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
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- The Winter's Tale
Cabot and Abbie are in bed, and Cabot has just told Abbie his life story. Suddenly, he feels unnerved by the atmosphere in the house, which he finds “uneasy,” and he heads out to sleep in the barn. When mentioning things “pokin’ about in the dark,” Cabot is referring to his second wife Maw’s restless, ghostly presence. Maw died several years before the play starts, but the characters feel that a “sinister maternity” permeates the house, making everybody uncomfortable. Until now, Cabot has only talked about Maw in a derogatory manner. Early in the play, he refers to Maw as…