- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- A Lover's Complaint
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
In this quote, which opens the story, Jim and Irene Westcott are introduced as a seemingly picturesque and prototypical couple. The statistics used to describe the Westcotts’ life further illustrate the couple’s air of untroubled perfection. They are in a stable, long-term marriage, maintain an unvarying theater habit, and have a typical, middle-class dream of moving to the suburbs. Their lifestyle is worthy of “alumni bulletins,” implying that the Westcotts are socially respectable according to educated society’s standards. However, the descriptions of the Westcotts also hint at their worldly ignorance and naivety: their existence serves as an exemplar solely for…