- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- A Lover's Complaint
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- Measure for Measure
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
Pascal’s prophetic words in the 17th century foreshadow Xavier de Maistre’s thrilling adventure around his bedroom more than a century later: de Maistre manages to find boundless enjoyment staying quietly in his room (although, in truth, de Botton never mentions that he was on house arrest during the whole endeavor, which might account for his decision to try out “room travel”). Nevertheless, Pascal suggests that something like curiosity, wanderlust, or the desire to experience the foreign is a driving cause behind human unhappiness; were people to appreciate what they have, or perhaps simply let go of their desire to discover…