- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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Declan walks into the cool room to find that Roley has not cut up the body of Samson as he was instructed to. The graphic physicality of this scene recalls the recurrent motif in the story about the fragility of bodies—Samson is covered with “nicks and cuts” and Roley’s wife’s head has a “tiny dent” in it. Yet, here, it is infused with intimacy and tenderness rather than violence. In light of his earlier musings on the way Samson differed from the other animals in the zoo, this passage shows that Roley is processing his grief about his wife’s accident…