- 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
Mrs. Dawson advises her employee, Lucy Graham, after Sir Michael begins courting the young governess. By first describing what a “magnificent match” Sir Michael would be due to his wealth in comparison to Lucy’s poverty, and then telling Lucy to disregard all those advantages, Mrs. Dawson reveals the contradictions of being a marriageable woman in Victorian England. During the Victorian era, women could and were often encouraged to make marriages that advanced their social and financial statuses, but they were not supposed to appear at all greedy or ambitious, so they must at least appear to marry for love and…