- 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
This quote appears in the second paragraph of the first chapter. It is the first time Ruth introduces herself, and in just a few sentences she covers the three distinct eras of her life. In each era she has had a different name, which has corresponded to a different racial and religious identity.
Ruchel, which sounds both Jewish and European, was Ruth’s birth name. When her family immigrated, her name was Americanized to Rachel, and although she was still an observant Orthodox Jew, she had shed her identity as a foreigner. Each name change is marked by a forgetting, and…