- 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
After revealing that Beatrice is poisonous, Baglioni suggests that Giovanni administer an antidote to her condition. He seems to mean well with this suggestion: by using science and medicine, Baglioni hopes to undo Rappaccini’s damage. However, just as it was arrogant for Rappaccini to interfere with nature, so too Baglioni oversteps his role by giving Beatrice a potion. By interfering with his daughter’s nature, Rappaccini has done such deep damage that the potion cannot reverse it, and the antidote winds up acting as a deadly poison in her system. In this situation, medicine only does harm, and Baglioni’s desire to…