William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night: or, What You Will

by William Shakespeare

Separated twins, practical jokers, pining lovers, and a comic villain populate the city of Illyria, where the drama of TWELFTH NIGHT unfolds. When the fraternal twins Viola and Sebastian independently wash ashore...

The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it....

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

Generally agreed to be Shakespeare's last play, THE TEMPEST was most likely written in 1610. Twelve years before the action begins, Prospero--Duke of Milan--and his daughter, Miranda, were stranded by Prospero's...

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

The work of the world's greatest dramatist is edited by outstanding scholars and presented here, along with an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, a special note on the sources from...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Planning to will the largest portion of his kingdom to the daughter who can articulate her filial love most effectively, King Lear is furious when his youngest of three daughters, the unwed Cordelia, simply...

Shakespeare's Comedies Collection

by William Shakespeare

Collection containing All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour ’s Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s...

Shakespeare's Tragedies

by William Shakespeare

Collection containing The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens,...

Shakespeare's Romances Collection

by William Shakespeare

Collection containing Cymbeline, Pericles, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, the best Shakespeare's romances.

A Lover's Complaint

by William Shakespeare

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sist'ring vale, My spirits t'attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale, Ere long espied a fickle maid...

The Life of King Henry the Fifth

by William Shakespeare

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle...

The History of Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's tragic and comic dramatization of the Trojan War endures in one of his most intriguing plays. Shakespeare's portrayal of the snares of young love set against a backdrop of a senseless and endless...

The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

by William Shakespeare

Picking up where Henry IV, Part One left off after the Battle of Shrewsbury, Henry IV, Part Two is the story of England's King Henry IV during his final months of life, his reconciliation with his wayward heir,...

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

by William Shakespeare

This memorable historical drama concerns rebellion against King Henry led by Harry Percy ("Hotspur") and other nobles, complicated by the king's difficulties with his wayward son, Prince Hal. It features a superb...

The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth

by William Shakespeare

The play begins with a confrontation between Richard, Duke of York (the future King Richard III), the reigning King Henry VI and their respective supporters. Threatened with physical violence by the Earl of...

The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, and civil war.

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

by William Shakespeare

The play opens in the aftermath of the death of King Henry V of England (although it was written before Shakespeare's play, Henry V). News reaches England of military setbacks in France, and the scene shifts...

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest dramatic efforts,...

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his...

King Richard III

by William Shakespeare

Final play in Shakespeare's masterly dramatization of the struggle for power between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Richard is a stunning archvillain who schemes, seduces, betrays and murders his way to the...