- 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
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
Lussurioso bursts in on the Duke and the Duchess, thinking he will catch the latter engaging in incestuous behavior with Spurio. The Duke’s reaction is telling of his attitude toward religion and the generally corrupted quality of religion throughout the play. He sees his relationship to “heaven” as essentially transactional—in order to secure his place in the preferred afterlife he needs to pay his moral debt with prayer. That is, all he needs to do in order to make up for his moral crimes is to make a superficial, vacuous tribute to his God. This emphasizes the extent of his…