- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
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- Henry VI, Part 1
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- The Winter's Tale
Here, the narrator looks on while John and his grandparents sing folk songs together after dinner. This quotation demonstrates the depth of the narrator’s isolation and the “stranding” he experiences, on the other side of the emotional gap between himself, his son, and his remaining family. John is deeply integrated into this family and their culture—he knows the songs his grandparents sing and their routine of making music after dinner—but the narrator is “alien,” unable to play an instrument or sing, unfamiliar with the songs, completely cut off from his son’s world. Their singing “spans easily the half-century” that separates…