- 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
On the train, Clifford gets into a conversation with another passenger about the nature of train travel and, by extension, about progress in general. Clifford suggests that progress doesn’t go in a straight line. Rather, humanity keeps circling back to things that have been tried and abandoned before, and those old things are refined and transformed into something new and better. Railroads are an example—Clifford describes railroad travel as a “spiritualization” and improvement of ancient, nomadic ways of life. This is because railroads could theoretically allow people to jettison permanent, physical homes, he thinks, and travel from place to place…