- 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
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- 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
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
As their discussion of writing comes to a close, Socrates has just told Phaedrus that he thinks of writing as more of an amusing indulgence than a serious pursuit—something that people might use to store up reminders for themselves in old age, but not something that’s really beneficial to anyone outside of the self. On the other hand, he asserts that dialectic is the appropriate method by which to deal with serious subjects. That’s because it can be “planted” and “sown” within the soul of the person who’s best fitted to receive the knowledge of the farmer, or teacher. Unlike…