- All's Well That Ends Well
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- 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
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of living in a large city, Johnson suggests, is that it’s a potential magnet for terrorist attacks. Big cities are, as Johnson puts it in the passage, bull’s-eyes. Because so many people live there, packed into a small amount of space, it would be relatively easy for a terrorist to detonate a bomb (or release a virus) that kills thousands of people (whereas it would be almost impossible for a terrorist to kill a similar amount of people in a more spread-out rural community).
The passage is representative of Johnson’s “consilient” style of thinking and writing…