- 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
Rooke is thinking about how to tell Silk about his relationship with the natives. Notably, though Rooke knows he must tell the truth, he actively decides to tell an adulterated version of the truth. Rooke still positions himself as very different from Silk, yet this is a very Silk-like thing to do; Silk certainly has a great deal of control over what people focus on by either minimizing something or making it grander than the truth. This shows that Rooke understands that storytelling, particularly as it pertains to telling a story about the truth that's not quite the full truth…