- 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
In art criticism, unlike in other nonfiction genres, the writer’s opinions are actually supposed to stand out. Interviewers are supposed to faithfully communicate their subjects’ views, science writers are supposed to stick to the facts, and even memoirists are supposed to focus on their experiences, not their opinions or judgments. But an art critic’s job is actually to give their own opinion, then explain and defend it.
Whether art critics focus on movies, books, theater, dance, music, visual art, television, or something else, they also have an important responsibility to the public. Like most other nonfiction writers, they have to…