- 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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- 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
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- Richard II
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- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
When Jabez Wilson goes to apply for his job with the Red-Headed League, Duncan Ross (who is Archie in disguise) pulls on his hair to make sure that it is real. He claims that they have been deceived by wigs and paint, which seem like fairly rudimentary disguises. This is Conan Doyle sending a subtle hint that nothing is to be trusted in the case of the Red-Headed League. He is pointing out just how easy it is to be fooled by silly disguises. It is later revealed that the league itself was nothing more than a trivial disguise for…