- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
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- The Winter's Tale
At the end of Daniel Dravot’s rant in the pine grove about forging an empire, he reveals that he wants a wife, which will mean abandoning the contract he made with Peachey Carnehan. As Dravot points out, the contract originally was to end when they became kings, which they have now accomplished. Dravot’s willingness to abandon the contract suggests that to him, the contract was no more than a way to legitimize his desire for power. Now that he has the kingship he desired, he no longer feels an obligation to follow his moral code. Of course, Carnehan and Dravot’s…
