- 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
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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
- 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
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
At the conclusion of the dialogue, Phaedrus asks Socrates to remind him of what they’ve discussed together that day, and Socrates offers the above summary in response. In short, to be able to speak or write well, one must be able to define one’s subject and divide it appropriately; understand human souls in general and the types of speeches best suited to each type of soul; and gather all of this together in a scientific theory and practice. In other words, Plato shows, through Socrates, that the art of rhetoric is really a subspecies of philosophy.
Through its unusual structure…