- 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
Agave realizes her tragic mistake, and tries to piece together what has happened. She has been so deeply entranced by Dionysus that she remembers nothing, asking the audience to consider how much agency she has had throughout the play. It’s not easy to ascertain whether she has any true responsibility for her actions, or whether she has been a mere puppet for Dionysus to enact his particularly cruel revenge. Cadmus suggests that what she has been though constitutes a form of madness—but this contradicts the idea that mortals ought to follow the gods and pay them tribute. Agave has done…