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Shakespeare's Plays and Poems
You will find a complete list of all works published on the site on this page.
In a hurry? The Internet Shakespeare Editions has created focal Home Pages which collect links to everything related to a particular play or poem across the whole site.
| The plays: | The poems: |
See also the prefatory materials to the First Folio and the Third Folio.
The Internet Shakespeare Editions is publishing the plays written for the Queen's Men, many of which influenced Shakespeare. These plays are prepared for the project Shakespeare and the Queen's Men at the Universities of McMaster and Toronto.
Search the texts
We have included a search feature to showcase the power and flexibility of the living text.
Viewing our library of facsimiles
Our collection includes a growing number of facsimiles -- graphic images -- of the books as they were originally published. These images are kindly provided by libraries from around the world, and are accessible from the Home Page for each play or poem.
About our collection
The Internet Shakespeare Editions publishes the original versions of the plays and poems, preserving as many of the physical characteristics that appeared in the Renaissance, including old spelling and format. We also publish modern versions of the plays and poems, edited by a team of scholars from around the world.
Fully edited plays are to be found in the Library; all others are in the Annex. Works that are published in the Annex have been carefully proofread, but have not yet had a full scholarly review.
See the plays and poems as the scribes did
Taking a page from the Renaissance, we offer The Illuminated Text, a resource which shows individual pages of folios, quartos and other original Shakespeare publications in an interactive, visually appealing display. Here you can research, compare, explore, copy and paste transcriptions or print facsimiles.
Example: Hamlet
Modern versions of plays and poems now edited
Those with full introductions, commentary, and notes
Those with the modern text online
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet: modern texts based on the First Quarto, Second Quarto, Folio, and the Editor's version
- Henry IV, Part One
- Henry V
- King John
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Tempest
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Editors and editorial principles
You can find out about the distinguished scholars who are working on the editions on these pages: