- 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 quote, Lewis draws his argument about “man’s conquest over nature” to a close. He argues that this view of nature is harmfully reductive. In other words, by saying that the conquest of nature is a good thing, those with power are able to reduce anything—not just principles like the Tao, but also the people over whom they exercise power—to mere “nature,” an abstract thing to be manipulated. As more and more things are reduced to “Nature,” the realm of Nature becomes ever greater. The relentless dissection and analysis of things, from stars to human souls, becomes an ever-increasing…