- 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
As a detective whose passion for the job exceeds his desire to make money from it, Holmes loves the process of solving a crime through his heightened skills of reasoning and deduction. For him, a sense of cunning is superior to any kind of physical violence. (This is demonstrated earlier, too, when Roylott bends a fire poker with his hands in front of Holmes, but the detective refuses to be intimidated by this show of brute force.) Holmes is confident that his sharp detective skills will defeat Roylott in the end, no matter how threatening the doctor might be. Furthermore…