- 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 this quote, Binx describes the problem at the heart of the book—his “search.” The essence of the search is to look for the meaning beyond the ordinary, or what Binx calls “everydayness.” If someone were marooned on an island, the castaway would explore his surroundings in detail in order to get his bearings. It’s noteworthy that Binx doesn’t specify an end goal for the search—he doesn’t say, for example, that the castaway looks for a means of rescue from the strange island. The mystery is in finding oneself there at all. But most people, in Binx’s opinion, never notice…