- 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
When Hazel investigates the haunted barn for her psychology paper, she encounters an otherworldly presence there that supposedly communicates these garbled words to her. While Kinbote spends a lot of time trying to interpret the message, he ultimately gives up and concludes that the words are nonsense—but Kinbote is a fool and a poor scholar who, throughout the novel, fails to follow up on important literary references that Shade is making, assuming that they are unimportant even though readers who do follow up realize quickly that these references are all thematically significant to “Pale Fire.” In this way, readers realize…