Friday, February 6, 2015

William Shakespeare Plays Online


William Shakespeare
The University of Michigan, University of Oxford, and ProQuest are behind the Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership, which has published a whopping 25,000 texts online from the 1473 - 1700 period.  Another 40,000 texts, including those of William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Milton, are planned for release by the end of the decade (rf. U-M seeks to make Shakespeare, others available online) wow.  

In the meantime, FYI:
Before the publication of the First Folio in 1623, nineteen of the thirty-seven plays in Shakespeare's canon had appeared in quarto format. With the exception of Othello (1622), all of the quartos were published prior to the date of Shakespeare's retirement from the theatre in about 1611. It is unlikely that Shakespeare was involved directly with the printing of any of his plays, although it should be noted that two of his poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were almost certainly printed under his direct supervision.

Here you will find the complete text of Shakespeare's plays, based primarily on the First Folio, and a variety of helpful resources, including extensive explanatory notes, character analysis, source information, and articles and book excerpts on a wide range of topics unique to each drama.
Reference: Shakespeare's Plays.

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