- 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
For months Werther writes letters to Wilhelm that lack substance. His life, it seems, has been put on hold, as though he were waiting for something to happen. The unmistakable torment present in the voice above hints that he is waiting either for Lotte to change her mind (which he knows is all but impossible) or for him to decide firmly on suicide—a final embrace of the nothingness he feels his life is without her. While this is a clear rumination of the theme of suicide, it also highlights Werther’s constant self-absorption. He does indeed have so much: education, money…