- 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
Ivanhoe begins with this letter, allegedly written by the book’s author, Lawrence Templeton, to his friend Dr. Dryasdust. The friend’s name clearly indicates that the fictional letter forms part of the novel itself. It allows Walter Scott, through the character of Templeton, to express some of his ideas about the value, benefits, and drawbacks to historical fiction, or in early 19th-century language, “historical romance.” This genre was, at the time, in its infancy, and Walter Scott’s work, including Ivanhoe, contributed greatly to an explosion of popularity and a subsequent reconsideration of the genre which took it much more seriously…