- 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
Boris has told Theo how the recovery of The Goldfinch led to recovery of many other stolen artworks, meaning that Theo’s original theft ended up having a net positive impact on the world. Boris laments that he stole from Theo, who was always so generous with him, yet also suggests that Theo’s very black-and-white way of thinking about morality perhaps does not accurately reflect the nature of the world. Here, Boris suggests that because “good doesn’t always follow from good deeds” (and vice versa) it can be hard to accurately distinguish good deeds from bad.
Of course, many people would…