- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
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- Macbeth
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
The opening line of the short story provides useful context not only for the setting, but also the narrator’s perspective and mindset. This is a first-person account from someone involved in an ongoing war—World War I, later context reveals—although the story will not take place on the battlefield itself. Nevertheless, the war has clearly left indelible scars on the narrator; that it is “always” there suggests that, regardless of his distance from the fighting, the war has become the context against which the narrator categorizes place, person. and purpose. Meanwhile, the use of “we” builds anticipation as to the other…