- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This exchange takes place when the kids ask Miss Moore what a paperweight is after seeing an expensive one in the window of FAO Schwarz (an upscale toy store in Midtown Manhattan). Their discussion reveals economic inequality, both within the city as a whole and within the group. Most of the kids don’t even have a desk at home, whereas anyone spending $480 on a paperweight is presumably very wealthy. The kids’ needs and knowledge are totally different from the store’s usual clientele, and as a result, they wouldn’t need (nor could they afford) an item like the paperweight.
Mercedes…