William Shakespeare: Home

A wonderful overview of the Bard, and a great place to begin studying Shakespeare on the Web.

Online access to performances of Shakespeare's plays from all over the world, in many languages. Also includes scholarly essays.

Welcome to the new website of Shakespeare's Words, The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

These four humors (blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm) were thought to define peoples’ physical and mental health, and determined their personalities, as well. "And there’s the humor of it" Shakespeare and the four humors explores the language of the four humors that bred the core passions of anger, grief, hope, and fear—the emotions conveyed so powerfully in Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies.

Want to see Stratford-upon-Avon in a completely new way? Your visit to historic Stratford-upon-Avon won't be complete without this unique self-guided tour of Shakespeare's home town. Find out where to go in Stratford-upon-Avon, view hundreds of treasures owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, see the last home of the playwright in a specially reconstructed 3D model, or create your own photo souvenir posing next to William Shakespeare. The app is available in seven languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese..

In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics.

Suffragist readings of Shakespeare variously cite Shakespeare's feminism as a source of authority, justifying their right to vote, and attack Shakespeare's patriarchal impulses in a manner that anticipates second-wave feminist, cultural materialist readings of the plays by half a century.

Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Shakespeare.

In this second of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Freedom, High-Day! High-Day, Freedom!" examines some of the many ways—including, but not limited to, performance—that black Americans have encountered, responded to, taken ownership of, and sometimes turned away from Shakespeare's words.

In one of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Our Own Voices with Our Own Tongues" revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and 1950s.

In honor of Shakespeare's Birthday, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosts a lecture (a variety topics) from a noted scholar.