- 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
This quote describes Phoebe, a distant Pyncheon cousin who arrives unannounced for a visit with Hepzibah. Because Phoebe grew up at a distance from the House of the Seven Gables, she is untouched by the House’s gloom. Her cheerful innocence and outsider status therefore allow another perspective on the inhabitants of the melancholy House. Phoebe’s character actually has a transformative effect on the things and people around her—especially her ability to see the potential in her surroundings and her ability to make a home no matter where she is, even someplace as dreary as the Pyncheon house. She does this…
