- 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
After Erasmus breaks Big Kit’s nose with a plate, Wash tells her later that he shouldn’t have hit her. In response, Big Kit criticizes Wash for being soft and asks him if he’s never seen blood before. In this quote, Wash comes to perhaps his first realization about the true injustice in their lives. First, he notes the injustice that their bodies seem to have no value to the white masters outside of the labor they can provide. Erasmus is willing to mutilate William’s body or break Big Kit’s nose because he doesn’t truly regard the enslaved people as human…