- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, the narrator describes what it’s like for him and his brothers to endure their father’s beatings. Because this paragraph appears in the novella’s first chapter, Torres effectively foregrounds Paps’ violence, marking what will be an important thread throughout the book and framing him as a man who is not only aggressive and hurtful, but habitually violent. After all, he spanks and whips the narrator and his brothers so often that the boys come to expect it and even begin to read into the deeper meaning of their abuse. Rather than acknowledging that Paps’s disciplinary practices are unusually…