- 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 Duchess Margaret Cavendish visits the Empress to help with her Cabbala, the two women quickly become close Platonic friends. (Of course, this friendship also represents the way that people can learn and grow by bonding with fictional characters.) The Empress asks for the Duchess’s advice about her Cabbala, the book of philosophy she wishes to write, and the Duchess recommends writing a “poetical or romancical Cabbala.” In other words, rather than a logical explanation or a scriptural interpretation of the meaning of God and the universe, the Duchess proposes that the Empress present her philosophical beliefs in the…