- 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 the heavenly sphere of Mars, Dante sees a dazzling vision of souls gathered in the shape of a cross, and for a brief moment, Christ himself shines forth from the cross like white lightning. Dante attempts no more detailed description. This is an example of Dante’s reticence in the face of mystical experiences, something that recurs frequently in Paradiso, especially as Dante travels higher towards God’s presence. Even a fleeting sight of Christ defeats Dante’s powers of language, suggesting that even for a poet like Dante, the highest heavenly realities transcend ordinary human capacities. Such knowledge cannot be…