- 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
At the beginning of Phaedrus, Socrates (probably in his 50s at this time) comes upon young rhetoric student Phaedrus (probably in his 20s), who has just come from hearing famed speechwriter Lysias giving a speech about love. Socrates asks to hear Phaedrus’s rendition of the speech, but Phaedrus somewhat coyly pretends he couldn’t possibly deliver such a great speech well. But Socrates sees through the enthusiastic novice’s “modesty” and knows he’s not only carrying a copy of the speech on his person, but that he’s likely been…