- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Maurice and Clive spend two happy years together in a relationship without significant issues. During those years, they come together in a way that their “imperfect souls might touch perfection.” Through this passage, Forster portrays Maurice and Clive as so deeply in love that they achieve the kind of union that Plato discusses in The Symposium, where two people find wholeness by uniting with their other half. By saying that two apparently irretrievably imperfect “souls” touch perfection through love, the novel also portrays their love as spiritual. This idea is especially notable considering that religion, specifically Christianity, is one of…