Shakespeare Text Links

Click here to play William Byrd's "Wolsey's Wilde."

For more information on reading and searching Shakespeare's works on the Web,

MIT (search, lists, links, quotes, glossary)

Other Shakespeare text sites include

The Internet Public Library Shakespeare Bookshelf

for a class at the University of Victoria

More plays area available with a prefatory play synopsis at

For a readable introduction to the textual history of Shakespeare's plays, see The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations on William Shakespeare.

For quick overviews of the plays, try Brief outlines for several of the plays we are studying

Several synopses at this site from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

go to this remarkable site by Harry Rusche at Emory University.

Matty Farrow's text pages--rated the best search engine by Terry Gray!

Shakespeare Search Engine from Nexial (based on MIT text)

(the MIT site also has a search engine)

You can also limit your search to Shakespeare's poetry at

To hunt up an elusive quotation, try