- 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
In this passage, Gayef and Ranevsky gaze out at their orchard together and reminisce about the past. Ranevsky in particular is deeply moved and upset as she looks out on the expanse of their property—she remembers happy times from her childhood, and laments that though the angels have not “abandoned” the orchard, they seem to have abandoned her. Ranevsky knows that the only way she will be able to consent to Lopakhin’s plan is to “forget her past”—and yet she worries openly that she will not be able to. She compares her sentimentality for the past to a heavy stone…