- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
The final sentence of the story concludes Mead’s tale on a bleak and hopeless note. There is a simple description of the setting, done in a matter-of-fact style, showing that Mead’s fate is sealed and irrevocable. The repetition of “empty” and the parallel repetitive structure of “no sound and no motion” reinforce the story’s portrayal of the bleak, vacant, lifeless urban environment. The natural world is referenced briefly in the description of the “empty river-bed streets,” suggesting that for a moment, as Mead walked them, they held life, but with his apprehension, they have reverted back to dormancy. As opposed…