- 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
Filomena’s third tale features a Florentine noblewoman who, dissatisfied with her marriage, uses an unsuspecting friar as a go-between to arrange her affair with a charming Florentine nobleman. This passage is part of Filomena’s introduction to her tale, and it is one of the frankest statements of anticlerical sentiment in The Decameron. She skewers the clergy for being stupid and hypocritical, since they commit the same sins that they judge others for. But the worst of clerical sins is greed. Medieval people understood society as broadly divided into three estates: the clergy (those who prayed), the nobility (those who…