- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Tempest
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this quote, Berniece reflects on her past experience with the family piano. When she was a child, her mother, Mama Ola, polished the piano daily with her tears. Berniece’s father, Boy Charles, was killed after he and his brothers took the piano from the Sutter house. So for Mama Ola, the piano remained her only connection to her husband, and forcing Berniece to play the piano became Ola’s way of ensuring his memory survived. Her whole life becomes wrapped up in the piano, and the instrument thus becomes an intergenerational symbol of how the Charles family has suffered over…