- 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
In this passage, Frank attempts to convince Rita to leave his office and never come back. He does this for several reasons. First of all, he has a very low sense of self-worth, believing wholeheartedly that he’s an “appalling teacher.” More importantly, though, he doesn’t want to teach her because he has severe misgivings about the efficacy and merit of institutionalized education. When he looks at Rita, he sees that she is “seeking a very great deal,” and is unique in her vigor and conviction. In other words, he admires her natural, untrained intelligence and thinks that conventional tutoring might…