- 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
This quote occurs as Duke is reflecting back on his time in California during the 1960s, and it underscores his own appreciation for American counterculture. Duke’s reference to the countercultural movement is unmistakable in this passage, and he speaks of it in a nostalgic and almost loving way. Duke desperately wants to believe that the movement’s efforts to bring peace and equality to American society “meant something,” but the continued war in Vietnam and persistent racism and sexism in American society suggests that the movement meant nothing, “in the long run.”
The mere mention of the American 1960s conjures images…