- 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
Near the story’s end, Dick has given up his lifelong moniker of “Ragged Dick” in exchange for the more respectable name he was given at birth, Richard Hunter. Fosdick encourages him to continue on with this practice, since he no longer is ragged but rather a respectable man.
Ragged Dick is a bildungsroman—a novel of education where a young person learns (not always with ease) the lessons needed to transition from childhood into adulthood. In this moment, the adult that Richard has become fully emerges, and he can leave behind the shell of the ragged child he once was. This…