- 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
After refusing for a long time to admit that he wasted his life focusing on wealth and status, Ivan finally realizes that he has “not lived his life as he should have.” On the verge of death, he finds himself capable of admitting that everything he coveted—his career, his public image, his power—means nothing now that he’s about to die. Not only this, but these preoccupations are actively “wrong,” an idea that suggests Tolstoy—and, in turn, Ivan—thinks these things are actively corruptive and bad for the soul. Even if Ivan tries to tell himself otherwise, he finds it impossible to…