- 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 Pierre is imprisoned by the French, the things that have burdened him—like his marriage, and his desperation to find an important role in the war—no longer seem important to him. Happiness seems to consist in those basic needs he is denied, and in the freedom to determine his own life. Ironically, Pierre forgets that these precise things are what made life so difficult for him before—falling into vice when tempted by excess, and being paralyzed by the very freedom to choose his own occupation. In reality, Pierre is far happier without these things. Captivity and limited comforts actually give…