- 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
In this passage, Sean, Steve’s teenage son, asks Ray to help find Mars through his telescope, but Ray can neither remember the boy’s name, nor can he actually see anything in the telescope. This passage paints Ray as thoroughly incompetent, while Steve is the knowledgeable one who points out Sean’s name and imparts some wisdom about how and when to look through a telescope. Faced with another example of Steve “outcompeting” him, Ray suddenly feels his poor health flare up in the same “pressure on his chest” and “shortness of breath” that had led to his father’s heart attack. Although…