- 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
Nietzsche has just been critiquing the philosopher Kant’s views about art. Kant thinks that the correct way to look at art is in an emotionally distanced way (“without interest”). Anything that’s personally stimulating in the art, to Kant, is irrelevant. Here, Nietzsche says that the writer Stendhal’s view about art is far superior. Stendhal writes that what’s really beautiful about art is that people can look at something they connect with and be moved by it, which makes them feel happy (une promesse de bonheur meaning “a promise of happiness”). To Nietzsche, Stendhal captures what’s really compelling about art…