- 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
After an unsettling morning of pondering political questions, the Prince retreats to the palace observatory, his refuge from reality. The Prince loves astronomy because—unlike managing his family, estate, or social status—studying the stars is abstract and follows patterns that can be readily grasped by the human mind. Unlike the political upheaval in Sicily, in other words, the stars’ actions can be neatly predicted and can be relied upon to remain the same.
In this way, the distant stars and their calculations feel more real to the Prince than his everyday estate dealings and human relationships, which defy categorization and change…