- 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
At the beginning of Chapter 1V, Mill raises the question of whether women’s emancipation will have a positive effect on society as a whole. He begins by noting that there is no doubt that enhancing women’s rights will ease the suffering of many individual women trapped in abusive marriages. As an institution that so easily permits the abuse of power with no consequences, marriage (in its current form) is an outdated and unfortunate relic of the past. As Mill argues in this quotation, it is the only form of legal slavery that remains. This reiteration of one of Mill’s most…