- 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
Here we're shown how Patrick Prendergast, the assassin of the Mayor of Chicago, plans to carry out his murder. Prendergast is at once sane and insane: he's driven to murder the mayor for the most incomprehensible of reasons (he thinks he's been denied a government position). And yet he's also surprisingly rational and controlled about the act itself: here, for example, he makes a special effort to keep a backup bullet, proving that his crime is premeditated.
The fine line between sane and insane is a recurring theme in the book: most of the major characters behave logically and illogically…
