- 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
Here, Slater establishes the social and economic differences between the wealthy neighborhoods uphill, and the poverty of the city streets below. Residents living in the wealthier neighborhoods have the luxury of a solid education, and the crime rates are lower because all the residents’ basic needs are met. The upper class even enjoys idyllic “views of the bay,” a luxury that is certainly lacking in East Oakland real estate. Slater’s quote implies that the view downtown is improving, largely due to gentrification and the movement of the middle-class into urban neighborhoods, but even this means that poor families like Richard’s…