- 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 comes in the first few moments when Pegeen and Christy are alone. The arrival of Christy has solved the problem of who will protect Pegeen during the long dark night, instantly positioning him in the role of heroic protector. Pegeen buys into this completely, conflating the perceived heroism of his murderous action with nobility and greatness. Of course, she couldn’t be further from the truth: Christy comes from a life of impoverished rural peasantry, and his attack on his father was as much, if not more, borne of frustration as it was heroism. “Mahon” is an anglicized form…