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Shakespeare's Texts Online

Folger Digital Texts
High-quality digital texts from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions, completed in 2010 by editors Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine plus sophisticated coding that works behind the scenes to make the plays easy to read, search, and index
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
Shakespeare Online: Sonnets
Full-text of the sonnets and analysis by Amanda Mabillard
Shakespeare in Quarto (British Library)
Twenty-one of Shakespeare’s plays were published in quarto before 1642. They appeared in more than 70 quarto editions, all of which can be seen on this site.
The First Folio (Folger Shakespeare Library)
The First Folio of Shakespeare, published in 1623, is an extraordinary book. About half of Shakespeare's plays had never previously appeared in print, including As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Tempest, and many more. Without the First Folio, 18 plays might have been lost forever.

The Sonnet Project
The Sonnet Project is a massive multimedia exploration of Shakespeare's great poems. We are creating 154 short films, one for each sonnet. Each video stars a different actor and is filmed at a different iconic or historic location in NYC.

Digital Theatre Plus
Video library of over productions, documentaries, workshops, interviews and analysis.
National Theatre Collection
Streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering insight into theatre and performance studies.

Performance Shakespeare 2016
A digital resource that offers a snapshot of what Shakespeare in performance looked like in the quatercentenary year. There are 435 posts featuring Shakespeare performances and events across 83 different countries around the world. .
Global Shakespeares
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field.
Shakespeare in Performance
Explore resources made available by the Folger Shakespeare Library

Images in the Folger Shakespeare Library
Founded in 1932, the Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's leading collection of Shakespeareana. Its diverse digital resources are represented in this collection of more than 8,000 images featuring the Bard, and theater in general, through book design and illustrations, manuscripts, costume and stagecraft, portraits of actors, playbills, and miscellanea.