- 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
In this passage, Mattie narrates the moment of her father’s death, when Tom Chaney shoots him point-blank in the head. Having just lost a significant amount of money while gambling, Chaney rushed back to the boarding house where he and Frank were staying while they were in Fort Smith. He then got drunk and grabbed his gun, planning to go fight the men who won his money. When Frank tried to stop him, Chaney “shot him in the forehead.” Mattie notes that this was completely uncalled for, since there was no true “provocation” on her father’s part. In fact, Frank…