- 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 ironic quotation, Gulliver insists that his story—i.e., the novel we’ve just finished reading—had been plain, simple, and straightforward. Right away, we recognize that we can’t take Gulliver seriously: contrary to what he insists, his adventures have been extremely “strange and improbable!” And yet there’s a grain of truth in Gulliver’s claim. Even if the content of his novel has been bizarre and fantastical, Gulliver’s tone has been calm and plain: instead of offering his own commentary on the events he witnesses, he explains them, leaving readers to judge for themselves. Moreover, as fantastical and bizarre as Laputa and…