- 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
This quote describes Hope Leslie’s religious upbringing, in which she was exposed to a variety of influences, especially Anglican and Puritan. Because of this spectrum of influences, Hope retains a skepticism about denominations’ claims to be the sole correct interpretation of Christianity.
This quote is also noteworthy because of the way it reflects Sedgwick’s own religious commitments. Sedgwick was raised with the Calvinist beliefs of many of her characters, but in young adulthood she joined the Unitarian church, a denomination that began to take shape in the latter part of the 18th century and thus would have been relatively novel…