- 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
One of the major themes throughout the book is that of memory, imagination, and freedom—Bauby is able to find freedom and relief from his difficult present circumstances by relying on his memories of the past, as well as his fantasies about alternate presents and futures. Each day, at feeding time, after a nurse inevitably wishes him a nearly cruelly optimistic “Bon apetit!”, Bauby begins his ritual of making mealtime more palatable by “simmering [his] memories” and indulging dreamy, luxurious fantasies of the greatest meals of his life. Bauby uses the deep recesses of his mind and his fanciful imagination to…