- 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
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
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- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
At Myshkin’s impromptu birthday party, Ippolit suddenly produces a sealed envelope from his pocket, an article that he’s written, and announces that he’s going to read it. Despite a lackluster reaction from the partygoers, who suggest that he wait until the next day, Ippolit dramatically embarks on reading the article, which is called “A Necessary Explanation.” He describes a visit the day before with Myshkin, who somehow knew that Ippolit suffered from nightmares and suggested that they might be better in Pavlovsk. Stunned by Myshkin’s insight, here Ippolit suggests that Myshkin has “extraordinary intelligence.” Yet, strangely, he also says that…