- 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
O. Henry shows in the doctor’s diagnosis that health and hope for the future are closely tied together. Since Johnsy is convinced she will die—in the doctor’s words, she is beginning to “count the carriages in her funeral procession”—that belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. By telling Sue that the effectiveness of his medicine decreases by 50 percent when the patient is depressed, the doctor suggests that medicine cannot heal a psychological ailment. This insight proves to be true, since it’s not until Johnsy changes her outlook that her health begins to improve. However, the doctor’s sexist views continue to prevent…