- 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
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- 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
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- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
The story ends with a brief concluding scene that takes place the following morning, after a sheepish Mick has departed for work. Mrs. Delaney hugs a still bedridden Larry and calls him Mick’s “guardian angel.” Her use of the word “guardian” here emphasizes that Larry and Mick have swapped roles on some fundamental level, with the child intermittently playing a parental role (bringing Mick back home from the pub, etc.) and the parent playing the role of the wayward, irresponsible child. This moment also frames Larry’s drunkenness as a positive thing that saved his father from relapsing into alcoholism, but…