- 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
This complex passage shows Hagar, who has been steadily granting her beleaguered family more and more acts of grace as her condition declines, offering one final “blessing” to her least-favorite son, Marvin. Though she doesn’t feel in her heart that he is truly her favorite, she knows that the only way to “release” both of them from the pain and resentment they’ve caused one another is to acknowledge, for Marvin’s sake, how “good” he’s been to her. Marvin has long languished in obscurity, the Esau to his brother’s Jacob (in the Biblical analogy), and even though he’s put his life…
