- 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
During this exchange, Mrs. Alving tries to justify to Pastor Manders why she reads certain books and publications that he thinks are immoral. Ibsen never clarifies what, exactly, this literature is, but it’s clear enough that whatever Mrs. Alving is reading goes against Pastor Manders’s worldview. When he asks how she can read such material, she suggests that the writing merely articulates what many people already believe. This is what she means when she says that there’s nothing new in the books, implying that the traditional values Pastor Manders thinks are so ubiquitous throughout society aren’t quite as widely accepted…