- 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
On the narrator’s seventh birthday, Ma tells him he won’t be close to her now that he’s no longer six. When he asks why, she explains that Manny and Joel both grew away from her after turning seven. Adding to this, she says that her relationship with his older brothers has changed because they’re older, meaning that she has to “meet tough with tough.” This idea is worth noting because it underlines Ma’s conflation of masculinity, coming of age, and toughness. According to her, all boys grow up to be hard and insensitive because this, it seems to her, is…