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Links Database: Modern texts of the complete canon

• Craig, W.J., ed. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare

  http://www.bartleby.com/70/

  Bartleby has placed the 1350-pageOxford Shakespeareon their site. The searchable material, includes 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and miscellaneous documents. Note that this is the 1914 Oxford version, now superseded. Edited by W.J. Craig:

  keywords: oxford, sonnets

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Open Source Shakespeare

  http://opensourceshakespeare.org

  "Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century." Use the advanced search function, read the plays, and look up words in the concordance:

  keywords: collection, texts, concordance

  valid as of 2006-03-20

• Shakespeare Stack Project

  http://members.tripod.com/Mark_Zimmermann/Shakespeare/ShakespeareStacks.html

  Mark Zimmermann'sShakespeare Stack Projectprovides Macintosh users with public domain works of Shakespeare in binhex self-extracting archives; the texts are available here, in the now rather dated HyperCard format:

  keywords: macintosh

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Collected Works of Shakespeare

  http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/

  The standard public domain texts, but with an elegant search interface devised by Matty Farrow, of the University of Sydney:

  keywords: none

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

  http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeareis the work of Jeremy Hilton at MIT; this site has a useful glossary as well as a search form that links directly to the text:

  keywords: glossary

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• The Nameless Shakespeare

  http://www.library.northwestern.edu/shakespeare

  Joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, the Northwestern University Library, and NU-IT Academic Technologies that provides fully lemmatised texts (those that record variant forms of the same word) encoded in such a way as to allow linguistic, frequency, and proximity searches particularly useful for stylistic analysis. This site requires WordHoard - a free application available to download here:

  keywords: texts, concordance

  valid as of 2006-02-20

• The Plays of William Shakespeare ~ Presented by The Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)

  http://www.theplays.org/

  The Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)has a collection of the plays of William Shakespeare. Each play has its own search engine, concordance, quotes, and other information:

  keywords: collection, electronic, quotes, plays

  valid as of 2005-09-12