Read Shakespeare.

The plays, the sonnets, and four poems, set for reading. The words are Shakespeare’s, in modern spelling, from a public-domain edition. Speaker names stay. Stage directions, cast lists, and dedications are left out. Most scenes include a recording of the whole act. Dotted words open a short glossary.

Collaborative plays are included as whole texts. This is a reading text, not an authorship argument. Public domain in the United States. Source: Project Gutenberg ebook 100. For the 1623 spelling and the photographed pages, open the First Folio.

Comedies

The Tempest10 scenes The Two Gentlemen of Verona20 scenes The Merry Wives of Windsor23 scenes Measure for Measure17 scenes The Comedy of Errors11 scenes Much Ado About Nothing17 scenes Love’s Labour’s Lost9 scenes A Midsummer Night’s Dream9 scenes The Merchant of Venice20 scenes As You Like It23 scenes The Taming of the Shrew14 scenes All’s Well That Ends Well24 scenes Twelfth Night18 scenes The Winter’s Tale15 scenes

Histories

King John16 scenes Richard II19 scenes Henry IV, Part 119 scenes Henry IV, Part 221 scenes Henry V29 scenes Henry VI, Part 127 scenes Henry VI, Part 224 scenes Henry VI, Part 328 scenes Richard III25 scenes Henry VIII18 scenes

Tragedies

Troilus and Cressida25 scenes Coriolanus29 scenes Titus Andronicus14 scenes Romeo and Juliet26 scenes Timon of Athens18 scenes Julius Caesar18 scenes Macbeth28 scenes Hamlet20 scenes King Lear26 scenes Othello15 scenes Antony and Cleopatra42 scenes Cymbeline29 scenes

Beyond the Folio

Pericles27 scenes The Two Noble Kinsmen26 scenes

Poems

Sonnets154 sonnets Venus and AdonisPoem The Rape of LucrecePoem A Lover’s ComplaintPoem The Phoenix and the TurtlePoem

1613

The Tragedy of MariamElizabeth Cary