- 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 scene, Siegfried has just been slain by Hagen as Gunther and the other plotters look on. As Siegfried’s blood pours among the flowers, Kriemhild’s prophetic dream of his death comes true. Siegfried’s reproach of his betrayers is particularly affecting because of the way it captures the feudal obligations bound up with the deed—something that would have been clear to the poet’s contemporary audience. Siegfried has been a loyal defender of Burgundy, earlier going to war on Gunther’s behalf against Liudeger and Liudegast, and helping Gunther secure Brunhild, the new Burgundian queen. To slay a friend of the kingdom…
