- 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
As he listens to Master Jordan promise violent reprisals for Willowjack’s death, Walter contrasts his style of governance with the village’s habitual norms. Master Jordan views a lack of “formal discipline” as a problem, something to be brutally corrected. However, the absence of formal government is what has allowed the village’s simple and satisfying lifestyle to persist for so many centuries.
Moreover, Walter is fully aware that Master Jordan doesn’t care about finding a criminal, only about enforcing his own authority; therefore, he’s eliminating any meaningful law and order from the village, rather than fostering it. While the novel mostly…