William Shakespeare's works

Welcome, dear reader, to the glorious, chaotic, occasionally confusing world of William Shakespeare — the man, the myth, the Elizabethan content machine. Whether you’re here for the tragic deaths, the poetic speeches, or just to find out why everyone keeps getting mistaken for someone else, you’ve come to the right folio.

This compilation contains all the plays, all the sonnets, and most of the puns, many of which are either filthy or baffling, and sometimes both. You’ll meet kings who talk to ghosts, moody princes who can’t make up their minds, lovers who fall head over heels and then over cliffs, and clowns who make more sense than the nobility.

Below, you’ll find links to:

• Comedies where everyone gets married (eventually),
• Tragedies where everyone dies (usually with flair),
• And histories where everyone pretends they understand the politics.

Shakespeare was the man who gave us iconic characters like Hamlet, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, and just a lot of people named Mac in general. His heroes are often tragic, his fools are suspiciously clever, and no one — no one — survives Act V without at least a dramatic monologue and a stab wound.

He invented words we still use, insults we should use more often ("canker-blossom", anyone?), and plot twists that would make Netflix writers sweat. And while you may not always know what his characters are saying, trust us — they’re very emotional about it.

So dust off your Elizabethan vocabulary, prepare to be wooed, stabbed, married, cross-dressed, poisoned, banished, reunited, shipwrecked, crowned, and — occasionally — turned into an ass. Because in the house of Shakespeare, all the world’s a stage, and absolutely no one gets out without a soliloquy.

popular title

• All’s Well That Ends Well

• Antony and Cleopatra

• As You Like It

• Comedy of Errors

• Coriolanus

• Cymbeline

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

• Henry the Fourth (part 1)

• Henry the Fourth (part 2)

• Henry the Fifth

• Henry the Sixth (part 1)

• Henry the Sixth (part 2)

• Henry the Sixth (part 3)

• Henry the Eighth

• John

• Julius Caesar

• Lear

• Love’s Labour’s Lost

• Macbeth

• Measure For Measure

• Merchant of Venice

• Merry Wives of Windsor

• Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Much Ado About Nothing

• Othello

• Pericles

• Richard the Second

• Richard the Third

• Romeo and Juliet

• Taming of the Shrew

• Tempest

• Timon of Athens

• Titus Andronicus

• Troilus and Cressida

• Twelfth Night

• Two Gentlemen of Verona

• Two Noble Kinsmen

• Winter’s Tale

• Sonnets 1 - 154

Poems

• Lover’s Complaint

• Passionate Pilgrim

• Phoenix and the Turtle

• Rape of Lucrece

• Venus and Adonis

full title

• All’s Well That Ends Well

• The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

• As You Like It

• The Comedy of Errors

• The Tragedy of Coriolanus

• Cymbeline

• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

• The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

• The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

• The Life of King Henry the Fifth

• The First Part of Henry the Sixth

• The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth

• The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth

• King Henry the Eighth

• The Life and Death of King John

• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

• The Tragedy of King Lear

• Love’s Labour’s Lost

• The Tragedy of Macbeth

• Measure For Measure

• The Merchant of Venice

• The Merry Wives of Windsor

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Much Ado About Nothing

• The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

• Pericles, Prince of Tyre

• King Richard the Second

• King Richard the Third

• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

• The Taming of the Shrew

• The Tempest

• The Life of Timon of Athens

• The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

• Troilus and Cressida

• Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona

• The Two Noble Kinsmen

• The Winter’s Tale

• Sonnets I - CLIV

• A Lover’s Complaint

• The Passionate Pilgrim

• The Phoenix and the Turtle

• The Rape of Lucrece

• Venus and Adonis