Shakespeare Resources

The web is full of resources about the great Bard. There are dedicated resources as well as coverage from poetry and literature sites. Here is a collection of Shakespeare links.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare - MIT's The Tech operates this site which has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry since 1993.

Shakespeare's Words - This site contains Shakespeare's works with modern It also lets you search Shakespeare's works and find themes, frequently encountered words, characters by part-size and more.

Fear No Shakespeare - A collection of resources that offers a modern English translation of Shakespeare's works side-by-side with the original text.

Folger Shakespeare Library - Home of the world's largest Shakespeare collection and online Shakespeare resource.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - This resource is sadly no longer available. A description of what it contained and archives of the pages can be found on the Library of Congress.

Shakespeare Obit - The New York Times has a Shakespeare "on this day" obituary.

WilliamShakespear.net - This resource contains facts, quotes, poems and play descriptions. The site contains 375 poems.

BBC: William Shakespeare - This BBC feature takes you through Shakespeare's life and describe his impact on literature and storytelling today. They note that Shakespeare's works have been translated into 80 languages, even Klingon.

Shakespeare Online - A Shakespeare resource featuring his plays, sonnets, analysis, plot summaries, quotations, articles and more. The site says Sonnet 18 is Shakespeare's greatest love poem.

William Shakespeare at Poets.org - Poets.org has a Shakespeare biography and collection of his poetry.

William Shakespeare at Poetry Foundation - The Poetry Foundation has a detailed biography of William Shakespeare and a collection of his poetry.

Shakespeare's Sonnets - This site provides all of Shakespeare's sonnets with descriptive commentary.

William Shakespeare at Bartleby - Bartleby has a collection of Shakespeare's works and writings about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets Introduction - An introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets and how he radically changed the conventions of love poetry from the British Library.

William Shakespeare at Poem Hunter - You can read and search through Shakespeare's poems at Poem Hunter.

Open Source Shakespeare - This site contains Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. It also features advanced searches that let you search specific works, genres, characters and more.