- 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
Lily combs through a shoebox of mementos she’s kept from her teenage years. Among these mementos is the symbolic open heart that Atlas carved for her and Lily’s old journals, which contain entries that Lily addressed to her television hero, Ellen DeGeneres. The introduction of these items establishes Ellen’s and Atlas’s significant roles in Lily’s childhood: the heart symbolizes that emotional weight of that period, while Lily’s diaries narrate the full story.
It is significant that Lily seeks out these memories directly after meeting Ryle and after her father’s death. The aftermath of her father’s funeral and the “naked truths”…