- 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 2
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- Henry VI, Part 1
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- A Lover's Complaint
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Just before Vershinin’s anecdote, Masha mentions the tiresome winter weather and asserts that, if she were in Moscow, she would never complain about the weather. In turn, Vershinin argues that Masha makes a fundamentally human mistake. The diary he cites is a work titled Impressions cellulaires, published in 1898 by French Minister of Public Works Charles Baihaut, who was jailed for accepting bribes related to the construction of the Panama Canal. Vershinin argues that, like Baihaut, people tend to become obsessed with what they do not have. Then, once they’re free to enjoy those things, they no longer appreciate…