- 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 highly symbolic passage, Esperanza and Miguel have driven out to the foothills on the day before her birthday so that Esperanza can listen for the earth’s heartbeat—a pastime she and Papa used to share many years ago. Now, as Esperanza lies in the grass and lets her mind drift, she envisions herself floating high above the San Joaquin Valley. In her vision she sees those she loves and those she has lost; she encounters symbols of hope and rebirth, and at last flies over a swift-moving river—the river which once represented the barrier between her and Miguel. Esperanza…