- 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
Mrs. McPherson’s independence is so strong, so at odds with what society expects of a woman, that Ellen doubts her sanity. She’s truly worried for her mother. However, she’s simply internalized the way that society views women who dare to break convention. When a woman asserts herself, society deems her hysterical or insane, and will go so far as to medicate or institutionalize those women who threaten to upend the status quo. Mrs. McPherson laughs in her daughter’s face because, rather than being ill, she’s never been freer.
Mrs. McPherson has left the limiting role of mother behind, but her…