- 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
Here, Hugh is explaining to Kirby, Doctor May, and Mitchell why the statue is “hungry.” Hugh believes that the statue is deeply unsatisfied with her life as an industrial worker and is longing for a reason to live. By suggesting that whiskey could be this incentive, Hugh draws attention to the rampant alcoholism among his fellow immigrant workers. Hugh’s addendum that alcohol only works “in a way” highlights how substance abuse is a temporary (and negative) coping mechanism that numbs a problem but eventually wears off. In addition, Hugh clearly struggles to choose words that adequately describe the ideas that…