- 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
Here, the narrator is explaining the correlation between the “disease” of reading, which causes one to “substitute phantom for reality,” and the “disease” of writing. This passage reflects Woolf’s argument that fame is irrelevant to writing and poetry, and it also underscores the mental anguish Woolf claims often goes along with writing. Being a poet is central to Orlando’s identity, and it remains a part of him throughout the entire novel despite profound changes otherwise; however, Orlando’s identity as a poet is the cause of significant pain in his life. At times, the act of writing is excruciating for Orlando…