- 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
Ivan is narrating a poem that he has written, “The Grand Inquisitor.” In the poem, Christ reappears in the form that he that he took when he first walked the earth. His arrival is mundane and uneventful and occurs during one of the most infamous moments of human suffering—a time in which devout Christian people were most in need of Christ’s love and forgiveness. Ivan narrates his poem to Alexei to prove his point that Christ’s love for people is impossible on earth. He sets his poem during the Spanish Inquisition to show how humans are more likely to kill…