- 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 the citizens of Hadleyburg hear about the sack of gold, they all assume that the man who deserves to claim it is Barclay Goodson—who is dead. In order to earn the reward, a claimant must furnish a piece of paper upon which he has written a phrase. This phrase must match the phrase that a kind man supposedly uttered to the stranger when the stranger was in town and down on his luck. In this passage, Twain showcases the gradual deterioration of the Nineteeners’ moral integrity. At first, the husbands are the ones to wonder aloud what the phrase…