- 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
This quote, a slightly awkward insertion, speaks to the ambiguous nature of The Pillow Book as a written work. It is part of a short “list” section titled “Worthless things,” on which Sei includes “someone who’s both ugly and unpleasant,” “clothing starch that’s gone bad,” and fire tongs which are disposed of after a funeral. Sei adds that although many people hate such things (and therefore that her inclusion of them isn’t particularly novel or interesting), that doesn’t mean she shouldn’t include them in her book. The odd defensiveness of Sei’s tone suggests that her diary underwent some editing at…