- 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 dying of exposure, the little match girl’s corpse is found by the townspeople on New Year’s Day. This final section constitutes the story’s subversive take on the fairy tale happy ending, transplanting the “happily ever after” setting from the traditional magical kingdom to a heavenly one. The detail of the New Year’s Day sun shining down on the girl’s dead body is potentially significant, displaying the light’s transition of sorts from the temporary flames of the match to the everlasting light of the sun, and by extension, God and the afterlife. Though her visions allowed her momentary comfort, it…