- 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
Here, the narrator illustrates the changing colors of the water and the sky as dawn breaks. This passage feels poetic and lyrical, as if it could be seamlessly embedded into a nature poem. The rich language used to describe nature—like the “carmine and gold…painted upon the waters”—feels reminiscent of Romanticism, as if it were an entry in Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals or a detail from her brother William’s poetry. Considering that literary Realism and Romanticism are somewhat of opposites, and that American naturalism is an offshoot of Realism, it is strange to find Romantic moments sprinkled throughout “The Open Boat.” However…