- 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
While Petra sometimes contemplates leaving her husband, in fact it’s he who abandons the family, plunging them into destitution and chaos. As a single mother, Petra isn’t able to make enough money to feed her children, and she’s overwhelmed by the extent of her obligations and her inability to fulfill them. At times, she even envies her husband’s freedom, and wishes she had been able to walk away from this domestic morass. While the novel often lionizes Petra’s efforts as a mother – her very use of the word “spine” to describe her husband ironically points out her own fortitude…