- 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
This chapter is a long hymn praising Eternity. Zarathustra praises Eternity because Eternal Recurrence, or the infinite recurrence of all creatures and events, is a liberating expression of the will to power (humanity’s fundamental creative drive). In other words, someone who fully accepts and embraces life, letting go of the burdens of traditional morality and its attendant guilt, has no dread of the eternal repetition of every part of existence.
This section of the hymn specifically touches on the role of religion in Nietzsche’s thought, especially the “death of God.” The reference to “old shattered law-tables” is a reference to…