- 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
As Karim spends time with Anwar and Jeeta, studying Anwar so he can turn him into a convincing character for Pyke's play, Karim also watches Jeeta as she finally discovers power in her marriage. Jeeta's transformation over the course of the novel suggests that culture marches on regardless of what tradition (as represented by Anwar) says—his rampant conservatism isn't enough to take on the new scholarship that Jamila reads about and then speaks to her mother about. In this way, Karim begins to humanize Jeeta and see her as embarking upon her own journey of coming of age in which…