- 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
After witnessing the gruesome events in the shanty, Nick asks his father a series of questions to try to understand what happened. Nick’s father’s curt, emotionally distant responses confirm the particular lesson he’s trying to teach Nick. Nick asks existentially hefty questions about life and death that would, for many people, require equally complicated responses. Instead, Nick’s father suggests that one shouldn’t bother to understand big questions, but rather should work to shield oneself from emotional vulnerability. For instance, he says that The Father killed himself because he couldn’t stand things. He brought his guard down. Nick’s Father shows him…