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The titles in the listing above link to the editions from the 1914 edition of The Oxford Shakespeare at Bartleby. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare from Jeremy Hylton at MIT are also available.

For further online Shakespeare texts in other locations and formats and Shakespeare commentary, go to the Shakespeare Section of the IPL Books Collection.

For criticism and other information on Shakespeare and his works, go to the Shakepeare Section of the IPL Literary Criticism Collection.

For an annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet, we recommend the excellent Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet.

To search the full text of Shakespeare's works, use The Works of the Bard.

For a handy guide to monologues found in Shakespeare's works, use the Shakespeare's Monologues site.

Shakespeare's complete body of work in plain text (ASCII) format is available for downloading as one huge gzipped tar file [2039K].

Email groups for discussion of Shakespeare and his works can be found listed in Topica and Yahoo! Groups. Also, there is a Usenet group for the discussion of Shakespeare: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

The Two Gentelmen of Verona Twelfth Night Troilus and Cressida The Tempest The Winter's Tale The Taming of the Shrew Pericles, Prince of Tyre Much Ado About Nothing A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice Measure for Measure Love's Labours Lost Cymbeline The Comedy of Errors As You Like It All's Well That Ends Well IPL Shakespeare Richard II King John Henry VIII Henry VI part 3 Henry VI part 2 Henry VI part 1 Henry V Henry IV part 2 Henry IV part 1 Richard III IPL Shakespeare A Lover's Complaint The Passionate Pilgrim The Rape of Lucrece Shakespeare's Sonnets Sonnets to the Sundry Notes of Music The Phoenix and the Turtle Venus and Adonis A Shakespeare Glossary IPL Shakespeare Timon of Athens Romeo and Juliet Othello MacBeth King Lear Julius Caesar Hamlet Coriolanus Anthony and Cleopatra Titus Andronicus IPL Shakespeare
Updated on 1 Jul 2005

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