- 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
After Vautrin gets arrested, he takes the opportunity to make a final dramatic swipe at society in general. In doing so, he indicts the hypocrisy of average people, whom he sees as being complicit in the corruption of society as a whole. In response to Madame Vauquer’s horror that she accompanied him to the theater last night, not knowing he was a criminal, Vautrin argues that Madame Vauquer—and, by implication, everyone else like her—is no better than he is. Vautrin, at least, is honest in his criminal dealings; he doesn’t try to convince himself that he’s a better person than…