- 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 passage, the Mysterious Benedict Society is contending with their most dire circumstances yet. Sticky has been caught cheating and has been taken to the Waiting Room, leaving the others to investigate without him. An Executive sees Reynie spying through the gym window, and as Reynie and Kate flee, she responds to his panic with a joke. Reynie does not understand how she can retain her cheerfulness in such a dangerous situation, and Kate’s reply reveals that she is fully cognizant of the dangers. Her humor is one facet of the invincible, self-reliant persona she projects. Cheerfulness and jokes…