- 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
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quote establishes that humans have the right to punish transgressors in nature. Locke argues that there is no impartial judge in nature—no governing body—and since everyone is equal, everyone has a right to punish those who exert unjust force against them, such as violence or theft. For Locke, this is the very definition of nature: the absence of an impartial judge and the power to act on one’s own behalf as an executive power.
The goal of nature is to preserve humankind, which is why the law of nature is geared toward the “preservation of all mankind.”…