- 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
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
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- Richard II
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- Romeo and Juliet
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
When Queenie goes into labor unexpectedly, she locks the men out of her room and demands that Hortense coach her through the process. Hortense is initially reluctant to do so, since she has no experience and hates anything messy or disruptive; even worse, she’s still wearing her best dress (her wedding dress) from her failed interview with the education department. When the baby is finally born, Hortense breathes a sigh of relief that the dress has emerged unscathed, only to be spattered with the bloody afterbirth. Uncharacteristically, Hortense chooses to disregard the mess, knowing that the beginning of a life…