- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
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- The Winter's Tale
When Hang and Que return to her mother’s village, they see a barley sugar vendor, whom Que notes is the daughter of the woman who used to sell barley there when Que herself was a child. This thought is distressing to Hang, who worries that she may be similarly doomed to repeat the life of her mother. Here, Duong once again connects the concepts of ugliness, poverty, and stagnation.
The cracked feet of the vendor symbolize how the simple need to survive has led to people ruining their bodies. Like Aunt Tam and so many other people in the villages…