- 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
- Othello
- Pericles
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This passage occurs after the chorus offers Prometheus their kindness and compassion. It illustrates the gifts given to humans by Prometheus, but also implies that compassion alone is not enough to see one through suffering and misery. Prometheus is accepting and thankful of the chorus’s compassion, but here, he tells them to “listen instead” to what he has to say about “human misery.” In addition to fire, Prometheus gave humankind “reason” in the form of “shrewdness.” Prior to Prometheus’s gift, humans were helpless and more vulnerable to Zeus’s wrath, but through his gifts, Prometheus empowered the humans and gave them…