- 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
This excerpt provides insight into the ways the divisive sectarian dynamic built into Agnes and Shug’s marriage has played out in the last decade. Here, Agnes’s thoughts retrace the assumptions she made about Shug when they met, showing a certain awareness (in retrospect, at least) that those assumptions were based on societal stereotypes about Protestants. Having been raised in a Catholic home, Agnes envisioned being sentenced to a life just like her mother’s if she stayed with her Catholic first husband: one defined by poverty, modesty, and devotion. In this way, her mother’s disapproval serves only to encourage Agnes’s desire…