- 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 bushwoman goes to get more firewood only to discover the that woodpile she’d earlier paid an Aboriginal man to build is hollow, a revelation that causes her to burst into tears. The juxtaposition of the royalty of the Aboriginal man who tricks the bushwoman with the fact that he cheated her suggests that even Aboriginal royalty, the class of people traditionally expected to be the most noble in a given society, are tricksters. This emphasizes just how nefarious Lawson expects Aboriginal people to be, and thereby points to the tradition of racist colonial thought in which Lawson is writing.
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