- 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
When the woman is sitting powerless and vulnerable in the bathtub, she starts to realize her helplessness and reflect on her solitude. This quote makes the woman’s loneliness explicit and suggests that old age is meant to be shared. The main action of the story—her trip to the cemetery—implies that she’s been a widow for seventeen years, but she doesn’t mention her loneliness before this moment. Stuck in the bathtub, she suddenly feels her husband’s absence and longs for him to be with her. When she realizes that two people are required to do what she used to be able…