- 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
Here, Cedar is leaving her adoptive parents’ house to go and meet her birth mother for the first time. Although she hasn’t spoken with Alan or Sera about her plans, and although she’s an adult, she feels obliged to leave them a note explaining her whereabouts due to “childhood instinct.” That Cedar refers to herself as a “child” draws attention. Not only is she already a grown adult, she is about to become a mother, thereby officially ending the childhood phase of life. This moment reflects Erdrich’s complex treatment of themes of growth and maturity—it is clear that both things…