- 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
In response to Daniel Dravot’s demand for a wife, the Kafirs are reluctant. Because Dravot is a god, they explain, any woman who marries him is sure to die. Dravot is indifferent to this claim, and the Kafirs finally agree to his demand. The chosen young woman is, of course, afraid, and when Dravot asks why she is crying out, the priests explain that they are “a-heartening of her up”—that is, helping her to gather her courage.
Dravot seems entirely unconcerned about his prospective bride’s distress. Furthermore, he threatens the Kafirs with violence if they don’t do what he wants…