- 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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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
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- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
As Arkadina and Trigorin prepare to leave Sorin’s estate and return to Moscow, Arkadina and Sorin discuss Treplyov—and his recent failed suicide attempt. Arkadina dismissively refers to the attempt as Treplyov’s having taken “a shot at himself,” refusing to admit to the depths of her son’s misery either out of a profound emotional disconnect or a desire to numb the pain. IN doing so, she ignores the fact that she is at the heart of his many emotional problems. Sorin tries to reason with Arkadina and speak on Treplyov’s behalf, arguing for the boy’s emotional vulnerability and artistic and professional…
