- 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 Poirot asks Countess Andrenyi the color of her dressing gown, she grows understandably curious of his legitimacy and credentials. When she asks if he’s Yugoslavian, he responds that he’s an “international detective.” Curiously, his commitment to internationalism is so strong that he doesn’t even mention his Belgian nationality. This offers several advantages to Poirot as a detective. It allows him to evade any prejudices that others might form of him based on nationality, and it enables him to remain impartial in issues of nationality, as his allegiance is to neither Belgium nor Europe but “the world.”
This fierce spirit…