- 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
As Trillian considers Zaphod’s intellectual capacity, she formulates a theory that the reason he is “successful” is that he “never really under[stands] the significance of anything” he does. This sentiment resonates with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s general interest in meaninglessness. Whereas people like Arthur Dent are constantly worrying about their own discontent—wondering why they’re unhappy and why they live the way they live—Zaphod hardly thinks at all. In fact, he doesn’t even pay enough attention in life to avoid potentially blowing himself up on an expensive spaceship about which he knows almost nothing. In turn, he’s able…