- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
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- A Lover's Complaint
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After Socrates gives his speech in response to Lysias, he prepares to depart from the riverbank where he’s been sitting with Phaedrus. However, he senses some sort of supernatural nudge—he doesn’t make its nature exactly clear—warning him that he’s displeased the gods in some way. He later goes on to explain that, by casting “love” as a form of undesirable madness and thus a bad thing, his speech has been impious. Love is a god, so his speech (and Lysias’s, for that matter) has been slanderous. It’s especially…