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William Shakespeare, plus his contemporaries and his sources

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From A Midsummer Night's Dream to Henry IV to Hamlet to The Tempest, this CD contains the complete text of 203 books and plays. In addition to Shakespeare's works, it includes major sources of his (Plutarch, Holinshed, Plautus), works of his contemporaries (Marlowe, Jonson, Kyd, Bacon, Nashe), translations of his plays to French and German, and books about him and his works. Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), it contains all of Shakespeare's plays and poems, including obscure ones attributed to him in part, plus German translations of many of his plays, and books about him.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), the books are organized for easy access. Individual books are in plain text format. You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor. In addition, the same books are also provided in a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links.

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William Shakespeare

As a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links
As individual books and plays in plain text format

plays -- the Mobey electronic edition

All's Well that Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labor's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

Cambridge Edition

The Comedy of Errors

Edited by Charles Kean

King Henry the Fifth
The Merry Wives of Windsor

plays -- the first folio (35 plays in a single document)
plays attritubuted in part to Shakespeare

Comedy of Mucedorus
Faire Em
King Edward III
Life and Death of Lord Cromwell
The London Prodigal
The Merry Devill
The Puritaine Widdow
Two Noble Kinsmen
Sir Thomas More
Tragedy of Locrine
A Yorkshire Tragedy

poetry

Lover's Complaint
Passionate Pilgrim
Rape of Lucrece
Sonnets
Venus and Adonis

Shakespeare in German translation

Coriolanus, translated by Dorothea Tieck
Hamlet, Prinz von Dannemark, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Die Irrungen (Comedy of Errors), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Julius Caesar, translated by August Wilhelm Schlegel, without accents
Der Kaufman von Venedig (Merchant of Venice), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Koenig Heinrich dem Vierten, Der Erste Theil translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Koenig Heinrich dem Vierten, Der Zeyte Theil translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Koenig Johann (King John), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Koenig Lear (King Lear), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Maass fuer Maass (Measure for Measure), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Macbeth, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Othello, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Richard II, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Richard III, translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Romeo und Juliette, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Sommernachtstraum (Mid-Summer Night's Dream), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Ein Johannis Nachts-Traum (Mid-Summer Night's Dream), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Der Sturm (The Tempest), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Timon von Athen, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Was ihr wollt (As You Like It), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Wie es euch gefaellt (As You Like It), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

William Shakespeare translated into French by M. Guizot

Antoine et Cleopatre
Beaucoup de bruit pour rien (Much Ado About Nothing)
Comedie des Meprises (Comedy of Errors)
Comme Il Vous Plaira (As You Like It)
Corolian
Les Deux Gentilshommes de Verone
Henri IV, premiere parti
Henri V
Henri VI, premiere parti
Henri VI, deuxieme parti
Henri VI, troisieme parti
Henri VIII
Le Jour des rois ou Ce Que Vous Voudrez
Les Joyeuses Bourgeoises de Windsor
Jules Cesar
Macbeth
Le Marchand de Venise
Mesure pour Mesure
La Mort de Lucrece
Othello ou le More de Venise
Richard II
Richard III
Le Roi Jean
Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Ete
Timon d'Athenes
Titus Andronicus
Troilus et Cressida
Venus et Adonis

Books about Shakespeare

The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
Bacon is Shake-Speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
The Critics Versus Shakspere, a brief for the defendant by Francis A. Smith
An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Martin Brown Ruud
Etude sur Shakspeare by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson
A Fairy Tale in Two Acts, Taken from Shakespeare, 1763
Glossary
Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare volume 3, Tragedies, by Samuel Johnson
The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespere by Delia Bacon
The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare by Henry N. Ellacombe
Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
Preface to the Works of Shakespeare by Lewis Theobald, 1734
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Shakespeare and Precious Stones by George Frederick Kunz
Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
Shakespeare's Bones by C.M. Ingleby
Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen (in German) by Kuno Fischer
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, volume 1, by the Rev. H.N. Hudson
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage by Sidney Lee
Shakespere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
Shakespeare and Music by Edward Naylor
Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess in the Year 1596 by Anna Benneson McMahan
Shakespeare's Famly by Mrs. C.C. Stopes
Shakespeare's Insomnia by Franklin Head (a hoax, 1887)
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson
Shakespeare Study Programs: the Comedies by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke
Shakspere: Personal Recolletions by John Joyce
Shakspeare from Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shakespearean Playhouses by Joseph Quincy Adams
Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley
Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (short) anonymous (1736)
Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost by Gregory Thornton
Sources and Analogues of a Midsummer Night's Dream by Frank Sidgwick
A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Tolstoy on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy
The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, a Study with the Text of the Folio of 1636 by George MacDonald
Warwickshire Lad, the story of the boyhood of William Shakespeare by George Madden Martin

Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

The Advancement of Learning
Essays

Of Truth
Of Death
Of Unity in Religion
Of Revenge
Of Adversity
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Parents and Children
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Envy
Of Love
Of Great Place
Of Boldness
Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
Of Nobility
Of Seditions and Troubles
Of Atheism
Of Superstition
Of Travel
Of Empire
Of Counsel
Of Delays
Of Cunning
Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
Of Innovations
Of Dispatch
Of Seeming Wise
Of Friendship
Of Expense
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
Of Regiment of Health
Of Suspicion
Of Discourse
Of Plantations
Of Riches
Of Prophecies
Of Ambition
Of Mosques and Triumphs
Of Nature in Men
Of Custom and Education
Of Fortune
Of Usury
Of Youth and Age
Of Beauty
Of Deformity
Of Building
Of Gardens
Of Negotiating
Of Followers and Friends
Of Suitors
Of Studies
Of Faction
Of Ceremonies and Respects
Of Praise
Of Vain-glory
Of Honor and Reputation
Of Judicature
Of Anger
Of Vicissitude of Things
Of Fame

The New Atlantis
Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature
about Bacon

Bacon by R. W. Church

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

The Alchemist
Cynthia's Revels
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
Every Man in His Humor
Every Man out of His Humor
The Masque of Beauty (short)
The Masque of Blacknesse (short)
The Poetaster
Sejanus: His Fall
Volpone or the Fox

Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)

The Spanish Tragedie (play)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Edward the Second
Dr. Faustus (play)
Hero and Leander
Hero and Leander and Other Poems
The Jew of Malta (play)
Massacre at Paris (play)
Tamburlaine the Great, part 1 (play)
Tamburlaine the Great, part 2 (play)
The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (play), with Thomas Nash, 1594
Works, volume 3 (Hero and Leander, Ovid's Elegies, Epigrams, First Book of Lucan, Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Fragment, Dialogue in Verse)

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

Pierce Pennilesse
The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (play), with Christopher Marlowe, 1594

Shakespeare's Sources

Raphael Holinshed (d. 1580)

The Historie of England, from the time that it was first inhabited until the time that it was last conquered

book one
book two
book three
book four
book five
book six
book seven
book eight

Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 = England, beginning at Duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror)

part 1 of 12
part 2 of 12
part 3 of 12
part 4 of 12
part 5 of 12
part 6 of 12

Thomas More (1478-1535)

Complete Poems
Richard III
Utopia

Plautus

The Captiva and the Mostarelli

Works, translated by Paul Nixon, volume 1

Amphitryon

The Comedy of Asses

The Pot of Gold

The Two Baccises

The Captives

Plutarch (ca. 46-127)

Essays and Miscellanies

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