| A 13th-century English king struggles to maintain his claim to the English throne amidst a bloody succession dispute with his nephew Arthur, shifting alliances with the French, and a high-stakes conflict with the Catholic Church | King John |
| A group of people waiting to attend a wedding in a forest outside of Athens fall under the spell of a love potion due to a scheme gone awry by the King of Faeries | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| A group of Roman senators conspire to assassinate the would-be emperor | Julius Caesar |
| A king and his three companions take an oath to devote themselves to study for three years and not keep the company of women | Love's Labour's Lost |
| A King of England gives a rousing speech to his soldiers on St. Crispin's Day, then leads them into battle against the French at the Battle of Agincourt | Henry V |
| A man from Verona comes to Padua and becomes a suitor to a mean-spirited woman. He uses reverse psychology to gain her obedience. | The Taming of the Shrew |
| A Moorish general in the Venetian army is plotted against by an evil, ambitious soldier under his command | Othello |
| A Phonecian ruler flees from the king of a neighboring land, starts a family, gets separated from family, then is happily reunited | Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
| A retiring king descends into madness after wrongly distributing his estate amongst his three daughters | King Lear |
| A rivalry forms between a cardinal, who has the confidence of the King of England, and the king's wife, who is eventually put on trial and divorced from the king | Henry VIII |
| A Roman general becomes a hero, but is exiled after two senators plot against him; he then plots with the enemy to conquer Rome out of vengeance | Coriolanus |
| A Roman general fights a civil war for control of Rome with the help of his lover, the Queen of Egypt | Antony and Cleopatra |
| A Roman general has the son of the Queen of the Goths executed as revenge; her and her secret Moorish lover then have the general's daughter raped and mutilated | Titus Andronicus |
| A tragic love story set during the Trojan War, using The Iliad as the backstory | Troilus and Cressida |
| A Venetian takes out a loan from a spiteful lender who wants a pound of flesh as collateral | The Merchant of Venice |
| A wealthy and generous Greek spends lavishly on others until he goes into debt, but no one will help him now in his time of need and he becomes a misanthrope | Timon of Athens |
| A woman cures the King of France, and chooses a Count who she loves to be her husband; he flees and she must find him and contrive to get him to accept her as his wife | All's Well That Ends Well |
| A woman flees from her uncle, the Duke, along with the Duke's daughter and the court jester, into the Forset of Arden | As You Like It |
| A woman shipwrecks on the shores of Illyria and enters the service of the Duke disguised as a man | Twelfth Night |
| Amidst the backdrop of ancient Britain's conflict with Rome, Princess Imogen must endure a series of treacherous wagers, cross-dressing escapes, and cases of mistaken identity to reunite with her banished husband and restore her fractured royal family | Cymbeline |
| As the elderly King of England nears death amidst lingering rebellions and failing health, Prince Hal must finally sever his ties with the charismatic but corrupt Falstaff to embrace the heavy responsibilities and moral gravity of the English crown. | Henry IV, Part 2 |
| As the King of England faces a brewing rebellion led by the fiery Hotspur, his son and heir, Prince Hal, must abandon his life of revelry with the dissolute Sir John Falstaff to prove his royal worth on the battlefield at Shrewsbury | Henry IV, Part 1 |
| In Messina, Sicily, one pair of potential lovers are too proud to admit they love each other, and another pair have their union plotted against by the illegitimate brother of a Spanish prince | Much Ado About Nothing |
| In Verona, Italy, two teens from rival families fall in love | Romeo and Juliet |
| On a remote island, the rightful Duke of Milan plots to restore his daughter to her rightful place by conjuring up a storm to lure his usurping brother and the complicit King of Naples to the island | The Tempest |
| Part 1 of a trilogy about a King of England | Henry VI, Part 1 |
| Part 2 of a trilogy about a King of England | Henry VI, Part 2 |
| Part 3 of a trilogy about a King of England | Henry VI, Part 3 |
| Set in Elizabethan England, an aging, overweight knight who's short on money attempts to court two wealthy married women | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| The evil and ambitious brother of Edward IV of England schemes and murders his way to the throne | Richard III |
| The King of Sicily suspects his childhood friend, the visiting King of Bohemia, and his wife of having an affair and plots against them | The Winter's Tale |
| The reign of the poetic but ineffective King of England collapses as he is deposed by the pragmatic and ambitious Henry Bolingbroke, marking the beginning of the long-standing dynastic conflict for the English crown | Richard II |
| The young Prince of Denmark stages a play in an attempt to prove that his uncle, the new king, murdered the prince's father, the deceased king | Hamlet |
| Three witches tell a Scottish general that he will become king; persuaded by his ambitious wife, he kills the king to fulfill the prophecy | Macbeth |
| Two best friends visit Milan and fall in love with the same woman | The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| Two sets of identical twins, accidentally separated at birth, are reunited in the city of Ephesus | The Comedy of Errors |
| When the Duke of Vienna departs and leaves the puritanical Angelo in charge, the new deputy strictly enforces archaic morality laws by sentencing a young man to death | Measure for Measure |
| While imprisoned in Athens, lifelong friends Palamon and Arcite both fall instantly in love with the Princess Emilia from their cell window, transforming their unbreakable bond into a lethal rivalry | The Two Noble Kinsmen |
