The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The original electronic source for these versions is the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare. There may be differences between a copy of a play that you happen to be familiar with and the one on this server: Don't worry, this is a very common phenomenon.

A brief detour...as a tribute to the much missed Bernard Levin, here is his witty & masterful "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

Contents
About the glossary
"Lambs" Tales of Shakespeare	- originally meant for children, but a great introduction or study aid.

Comedies	Histories	Tragedies	Romances
All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Taming of the Shrew Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona	Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III	Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus	Pericles, Prince of Tyre Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest The Two Noble Kinsmen
			Poems
			The Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Funeral Elegy by W.S.
Plot Synopses
Much Ado About Nothing

About the categories

Shakespeare's plays are often arranged in categories: tragedies, comedies, romances or histories. That arrangement is included here (along with a fifth column for poetry), but it is important to realise that the categories are not Shakespeare's.

A number of Shakespeare's plays were published as quarto editions (so-named because the paper was folded twice, making four pages on one side of a sheet of paper) during his lifetime. These individual editions had no "category" listed, though they often contained words like history or tragedy in the title, e.g. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, or The History of Henry the Fourth.

The arrangement of the plays into the categories is a practice begun with the First Folio, which was printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death.