- 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
While climbing Mount Matterhorn, Ray is so struck by the wilderness’s unparalleled beauty that he decides to emulate Japhy and embark upon “a new life” out in the wilderness as a spiritual wanderer. The first portion of The Dharma Bums is mainly about the spiritual awakening that Ray undergoes through his friendship with Japhy—and the rest of the book, from this point forward, is about his attempt to live “the pure way” as a Buddhist pilgrim.
Like Japhy, Ray chooses this lifestyle because he believes it’s his best chance to actually put the values he’s learned through Buddhism into practice…