- 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
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- The Winter's Tale
As part of the same exchange as the previous quote, this moment shows Christy growing in confidence in his new surroundings. With Pegeen showering him with praise, his speech develops from short, cagey sentences to a more florid, poetic style. Though he is describing a life of rural drudgery, his skill with the language lends it an air of mythology that informs his heroic aura. For his part, he is being truthful—he really hasn’t got any prior experience with women. But because of the beauty of his speech, Pegeen assumes that this is just part of a practiced routine of…