- 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
The peddler has just stolen the thirty kronor from the crofter, after the old man let the peddler into his home and generously provided him with dinner and a bed. Notably, the peddler initially feels no guilt for what he has done—his cruel act of repaying the old man’s kindness and trust by robbing him of his savings—and is even pleased with himself for seizing what was dangled in front of him. This connects to the peddler’s initial cynical mindset, where he must be opportunistic and even immoral if he is to survive in the harsh “rattrap” of life. There…