- 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
At seven years old, Mathabane tells his mother he wishes he’d never been born. Although it will be three more years before Mathabane tries to commit suicide, this moment marks the beginning of Mathabane’s rejection of his own life that occurs during his childhood. At seven years old, Mathabane should be enjoying his childhood, not wishing that he’d never had one. A statement like this from such a young person suggests that the weight of the suffering Mathabane experiences under apartheid outweighs any happiness he finds in his family or childhood. The fact that Mathabane says this as a child…