- 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
Sir Anthony is extreme in his demand of obedience in his son. He wants Absolute to agree unconditionally to marry the woman he chooses even if the match he intended was ugly and humpbacked. This extreme position is meant to be parodied as is signaled by the vivid description Sir Anthony gives of his son’s hypothetical ugly bride-to-be. The play is mocking the view that young people owe it to their parents and guardians to cede control over the direction they choose for their lives. Sheridan had personal reasons to want to mock this position, as his own father had…