- 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
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
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- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After Joe shoots Jed Parry to prevent him from killing himself, Clarissa writes Joe a long letter explaining her thoughts about all that has happened. Clarissa’s remark in this passage is a crucial assertion of the need to temper reason with emotion. Though she is conceding that Joe was right about Jed Parry and she was wrong, she is not wholly conceding that Joe’s behavior since the ballooning accident was appropriate or helpful. In Clarissa’s thinking, a logical understanding of the threat posed by Parry must be tempered by an emotional grappling with all that has transpired. Though Joe was…