- 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
The narrator has described Papa’s trajectory from being born to landowning peasants to joining the Miliciens (Volunteers for National Security). Papa lived an extravagant life as a Milicien, and he was exceptionally skilled at his job of torturing people. Here, one of his victims—an unnamed woman now in her 80s—describes why Papa’s torture techniques were so horrifying. Her words illuminate the intertwining of violence and care, a major theme in the book.
While other parts of the book show that violence and care can be the antithesis of each other, the torture victim’s words highlight how they can actually be…