- 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
As Hobbs enters the Knights’ locker room for the first time, he feels somewhat disillusioned: though he has wanted to play in the majors for many years, he realizes that he expected a warmer welcome (whereas Pop Fisher, his new coach, has acted dismissively toward him). Once again, Hobbs thinks about returning to a simpler, bucolic lifestyle, imagining an escape to the “woods” where he once lived with a “shaggy mutt.” This image (of a younger Hobbs accompanied by his dog) will recur throughout the novel, serving as a reminder of the alternative, more wholesome life Hobbs could choose to…