- 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
Another important caveat that Diamond gets to in his epilogue is the role of individual people in history. Diamond has been arguing that human history is, in a counter-intuitive sense, not really the result of individual human behavior—it is, primarily and fundamentally, caused by geographic idiosyncrasies that led to the development of agriculture, technology, etc.
Diamond acknowledges, however, that sometimes, individual human beings do exert a great influence over history. Can one really explain Socrates, or Shakespeare, or Rosa Parks, or even Lee Harvey Oswald, by talking about geography? Perhaps geography is a necessary but insufficient condition for human history—at…