- 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
Emerson continues to warn his audience of the danger of relying too heavily on books, this time by highlighting the importance of individuality and independence. Despite man’s inherent interconnectedness and Emerson’s own hope that Americans would soon become even more unified, Emerson also believed in the importance of individuality as a vital component of the healthy development of any person’s sense of worth in an increasingly stratified society. Emerson deeply believed that a society in which the individual did not know they were a “system”—meaning they were capable of independent thought and action, and deserved to be respected by others—was…