Poetry
- Hamlet
- "Very Like A Whale" by Ogden Nash (III.ii)
- Julius Caesar
- "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot (IV.ii)
- King Lear
- "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (III.iv)
- Macbeth
- "Out, Out–" by Robert Frost (V.i)
- The Tempest
- "Full Fathom Five" by Sylvia Plath (I.ii)
- "Pearls That Were" by J. H. Prynne (I.ii)
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