- 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, Mr. Poldero sets off his plan to prematurely age the phoenix through abuse. His battle with the phoenix in this passage can be seen as an allegory for mankind’s relentless exploitation of nature; Mr. Poldero stands in for mankind, treating nature with arrogance and cruelty in order to make a profit, and the phoenix represents nature, accepting that cruelty with dignity and resilience. Indeed, the story’s description of the phoenix’s eyes as “undimmed” and its feathers as “glossy” even as it grows thinner from starvation suggests that the phoenix will not be easy for Poldero to defeat. The bird…