- 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
"The Nightingale and the Rose" ends with the Student retreating to his studies and poring over the "great dusty book." This is, first and foremost, a commentary on the Student's hypocrisy (or, at least, lack of self-knowledge): the Student claims to be interested only in what is "practical," but the material he is reading presumably can't be very practical, or it would have seen more recent use. The book's dustiness, however, also evokes images of death and decay, and therefore contrasts strongly with the Nightingale's earlier description of the joys of life. Unlike the Nightingale, who lovingly recalls watching the…