- 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
The murderer, in an increasingly intense state of turmoil, has gone to the coffeehouse, where he has told two stories about blindness and style. As he is about to begin the third, he is distracted by the storyteller, who is beginning to narrate a story from the perspective of Satan. This passage contains the murderer’s horror at the storyteller’s decision and further conveys the murderer’s generally frantic state of mind. The murderer seems to want to blame Satan for all the problems facing the miniaturists, from the issue of individual style to the tension between the Ottomans and Europeans.
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