- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Tempest
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- Twelfth Night
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- The Winter's Tale
The strange, melancholy noise like the sound of a string breaking is heard twice throughout the play—in this passage, and at the very end. The sound is one of the most mysterious elements in the drama; though its source is unknown, it seems to inspire intense feelings and unrest in each character. Here, as the sound is heard by all for the first time, it seems to portend a “great misfortune”—or at least a vast change. As the play is largely concerned with social change—and the uselessness in trying to stop it or hold it off—the sound seems to indicate…