- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
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- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
These are the first lines in the novel. The narrator is writing his confession to the Commandant—the reader within the context of the novel—while the author uses this narrative device to introduce his protagonist to the reader. In the first sentence, the narrator’s personal description goes from being concrete (he declares himself a spy) to increasingly vague. “Sleeper” is shorthand for a sleeper agent—that is, someone who is sent to an enemy country to act as a potential asset when needed. However, a sleeper is obviously also someone who’s asleep. There is a contrast between how the narrator starts the…