- 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
Emerging after the storm, Neddy notices red and yellow leaves on a maple tree, an unmistakable sign of fall. Additionally, the air is so cold that Neddy shivers, an unseasonable contrast to the earlier heat of the summer day. He quickly disposes of the idea that it is fall, insisting (against all evidence) that “it was midsummer.” This shows that Neddy is oblivious to the passage of time, searching for alternate explanations because its passage clearly disturbs him (as it parallels his physical aging, which he cannot confront). To dispel his sadness, Neddy braces and finishes his drink, attempting to…