- 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
Vivian addresses the audience here, though at this point she is considerably weakened and sitting in a wheelchair. She is again distinguishing herself based on academic or scientific achievements, the idea that her work or the studies based on her will outlast her own life, and trying to feel fulfilled by this.
In the same monologue, though, she recognizes that she is being objectified by her doctors, and it isn’t she who will live on in this study, but only her cancer and its treatment. She feels dehumanized. Vivian is on the verge of longing for more than just intellectual…
