- 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
Beginning the poem with a traditional invocation to the Muses, Hesiod asks that they bless him as a poet and allow him to compose a skillful work of art. In doing so, he situates the Muses as the daughters of Zeus, emphasizing the ways in which their genealogy gives them their power and significance, along with the ability to bestow artistic skill upon humans. Similarly, Hesiod describes Zeus in relation to his own father, Kronos, foreshadowing the events that will take place later in the poem and emphasizing the importance of genealogy from the outset. Even though he is the…