- 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
In this passage, Mero remembers scenes from his youth that illustrate his family’s complicated emotional dynamics. Mero’s memories are vivid, depicting his family’s complex relationships in impressive detail despite his decades away from home. In Mero’s memory, his father’s girlfriend was a flirt and a trickster who ensnared both Rollo and the old man simultaneously; Mero however, is not exempt from her charm, as he clearly describes her with sexually charged, animalistic language. Mero compares the girlfriend to a robust horse, a comparison he cites throughout his life. This recurrent vision of sexuality illustrates of Mero’s often-cyclical thinking, a result…