The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

SLY I'll feeze you, in faith.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

1.1 Antony refuses to hear the messengers from Rome and declares that nothing matters but his love for Cleopatra.

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Study Guide

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The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

texts read sith or apricocks or porpentine, we have not modernized to since, apricots, porcupine.

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by Edith Nesbit, William Shakespeare

In the register of baptisms of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town in Warwickshire, England, appears...

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

King Richard gives formal hearing to the quarrel between Bullingbrook and Mowbray.

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure is one of the best of Shakespeare's plays, though it has not always received the appreciation it des...

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically m...

Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.

Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...

Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...