- 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 heroines of the Sentimental and Gothic novels popular at the time when Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey usually had certain qualities in common with one another. These heroines were beautiful, gifted at music and drawing, sensitive, moral, and modest. They were also generally either very rich or very poor, and often fell in love with men from a different class. From the novel’s first sentence, then, the Narrator signals that this book will challenge prevailing ideas about who deserves to be the novel’s central figure. The narrator satirizes the idea that anyone can be “born to be” a heroine…