# Shakespeare online?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 27, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056 "2003-08-27T20:22:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056/1 "2003-08-27T20:22:23Z")

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Does anyone know of any good online collections of Shakespeare?

Call me cynical, but I really don’t feel like dishing out cash for stuff in the public domain.

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**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056/2 "2003-08-27T20:26:33Z")

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[Project Gutenberg](http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/shakespeare __william__ 156.html)

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056/3 "2003-08-27T20:26:59Z")

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[Gutenberg project](http://promo.net/pg/).

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**Author:** ![Leechboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Leechboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechboy)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056/4 "2003-08-27T21:28:53Z")

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For quick referencing I recommend [Rhymezone.com](http://Rhymezone.com)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056/5 "2003-08-27T21:52:37Z")

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My favorite is the [MIT Shakespeare Project](http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html) . It gives the option of reading a particular [Act & Scene](http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/henryv/henryv.1.1.html) or the [entire play](http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/henryv/full.html) on one page, making it easy to check for a particular quote.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-online/198056/6 "2003-08-27T21:59:36Z")

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Beautiful.

Thanks for helping me stick it to the textbook publishers!