- 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
The Revolutionary War was not a distant memory for Civil War soldiers. Rhetoric invoking the patriots of 1776 was therefore not regarded as merely sentimental, but as a source of self-understanding and urgent motivation for both Northerners and Southerners of the 1860s. Both Union and Confederate soldiers would have enlisted out of a sense of obligation to the revered founding generations who’d passed down a legacy of liberty. The difference was that each side saw the other as a betrayer of that legacy and themselves as its rightful guardians. President Lincoln intentionally highlighted the idea that “all men are created…