- 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
Here, Equiano has been torn away from his sister for the final time. In this direct address to his absent sister (a literary trope known as “apostrophe”), he imagines the horrors that may have befallen her, his imaginings aided by the suffering that he himself has undergone at the hands of slave traders and overseers. His rhetorical flourishes are meant to touch his readers by appealing to eighteenth-century ideas about sentimentality and the importance of feeling—ideas that were often gendered, as women were thought to be especially sensitive to appeals to the heart, as well as particularly delicate and vulnerable…