- 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
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- 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
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- Romeo and Juliet
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- The Tempest
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
The governess has seen the ghost of Peter Quint again, this time through a window. She goes outside to find him and cannot see him, though insists that this is not because he is hidden by the trees but because he has actually vanished. This passage shows that the governess is quick to dismiss a plausible explanation (that the man she saw is now simply hidden by other objects in her sightline), and instead jumps to the conclusion that, because she can't see him, he has disappeared.
Depending on the reader's interpretation of the story, the governess may seem suspiciously…