- 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, Titus and Violet Durn are driving in Titus’s upcar. Violet, woefully unaware that Titus is neglecting her emotionally, tells him that he’s her hero—a statement that clearly makes Titus uncomfortable. Titus doesn’t want to be Violet’s “hero,” in the sense that he doesn’t want her to depend upon him for emotional support. Titus is used to being emotionally independent from his peers in almost every way—he goofs off with his friends, but is never shown to give them anything remotely resembling emotional support. For Violet to request this emotional support from him now feels like a challenge—and…