- 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
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- Richard II
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- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
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- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Previously, Emerson defined the essence of friendship as sincerity and tenderness. Here, he adds the ideal of “entireness,” presumably of the two people involved, who, through complete “magnanimity and trust,” allow each other to be completely themselves, completely independent and autonomous. A friend is therefore like a god to his or her friend: at complete liberty to do or think anything. Because a friend is a reflection of oneself, a version of oneself in a foreign body, a person effectively deifies him or herself when that person deifies a friend. By respecting another person, one respects oneself; by appreciating the…