- 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
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
At the beginning of Chapter 4, after Theodore mistakenly injures Frederic and brings him to the castle with Isabella, Frederic reveals a prophecy inscribed on a giant sword led him to Otranto. This is the second prophecy of the novel, and it claims that near the helmet matching the sword, Frederic’s daughter Isabella will be in danger, and that only “Alfonso’s blood,” can save her and free Alfonso’s ghost.
That Isabella is the “maid” to be “saved” reinforces gender stereotypes of women as damsels in distress, especially if “Alfonso’s blood” is Theodore, her future husband, or Frederic, her father. In…