- 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
As Connie and Mellors grow more comfortable with each other, she allows herself to admire his naked body with the same open lust that he has long displayed with her. Her “fear” at Mellors’s “erect penis” hints that, within the framework of the novel, a real man is “overbearing” and “terrifying,” unlike the more mild-mannered Clifford.
But of more importance here is the way the illicit couple now nicknames their genitalia (Mellors’s penis becomes “John Thomas,” while Connie’s vagina becomes “Lady Jane”). In using the title “Lady” for Connie’s vagina, Mellors at once valorizes the naked body as a source…