- 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
Hardcastle is preparing for Marlow’s visit by drilling his servants in proper table manners. These servants usually work in the barn and on the field, so they do not know the proper etiquette for serving a formal dinner. Hardcastle hopes to teach them how to perform these tasks because he is worried about the impression his home will make on Marlow. Although he is not really inferior to Marlow and Sir Charles by birth, Marlow worries that his guests will look down on the informality and lack of refinement that usually characterize his family’s lifestyle at their country home. Hardcastle…