- 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
Neither Arthur nor Catherine is in court to witness Ronnie’s surprisingly sudden victory (Ronnie isn’t there either, for that matter). In fact, they learn that a verdict has been reached because they hear a paper boy shouting about it outside, before Violet comes in—the only major character who actually was at the court at the victorious moment—to explain to them the scenes of jubilation that Arthur and Catherine have missed. That’s why it “appears” that they’ve won—because they weren’t there, they find it hard to believe.
This anticlimactic conclusion to the case, then, gives Arthur and Catherine a victory devoid…