- 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
Leonard is reading a book by John Ruskin, the author whom he considers to be “the greatest master of English prose.” Ruskin was a Victorian writer who often wrote in a very elaborate style, as in the passage Leonard reads. The book takes place in a beautiful Venetian setting, and discusses beautiful ideals like self-sacrifice and love of fellow man. Nonetheless, Leonard cannot connect to this sympathetic, melodious book. The writer sounds as if he has never been in Leonard’s place, and he seems like he would be unable to even imagine what it would be like to be poor…