- 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
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
Catherine anticipates seeing Henry Tilney at the next ball, and is lying awake considering what she will wear. The Narrator has said that Catherine has been told by a Great Aunt that dress is “at all times a frivolous concern,” but this is a mimicry of an overstated idea. The Narrator’s real position seems to be that dress is not utterly unimportant, as some moralizing older people would tell young girls at that time, nor is it important in the way that young women sometimes think it is. Although wearing something expensive and flashy is not likely to elicit men’s…