- 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
One night at dinner, Mrs. Bowers and her daughter Madge have a fight in front of Isobel and all the other boarders. Isobel experiences the sinking realization that she has been attempting to ingratiate herself to Mrs. Bowers, take Madge’s place, and become the “favored child” at last, since she has such a violent, volatile relationship with her own mother. Isobel likens the dark drive within her, desperate for love, attention, and affection, to an “idiot in the attic,” whose desires, actions, and impulses make “games” of the real world and do not account for the suffering of others. Isobel…