- 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
After they both arrive as strangers in Jefferson and take jobs in the planing mill, Joe Christmas and Joe Brown become friends. They eventually both leave their jobs at the mill, and seem to be running an illegal bootlegging operation. Both Brown and Christmas live in an old “negro cabin” on the property of Joanna Burden. In this passage, the narrator describes that Joanna has lived in Jefferson for years, but that she is still considered a foreigner because her family were Northerners who moved to Jefferson during Reconstruction. This detail indicates that the Burdens were part of the wave…