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...

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

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...

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.

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

AFTER the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in t...

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...

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

Socrates: I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, Ariston's son.

History

by Herodotus

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

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

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare

POET Good day, sir.

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...