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Table of Contents Praise Title Page Copyright Page WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR...
Table of Contents Praise Title Page Copyright Page WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...
Martin Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare, first published on the title-page of th...
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Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP Oxford University Press is a departmen...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE COMPLETE WORKS with a General Introduction, and Introducti...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE preparation of a volume such as this would be impossible without the...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION THIS volume contains all the known plays and poems of William Shakes...
Shakespeare’s Life: Stratford-upon-Avon and London Shakespeare’s background was commonpl...
Shakespeare’s Professional Career We do not know when Shakespeare joined the theatre aft...
The Drama and Theatre of Shakespeare’s Time Shakespeare came upon the theatrical scene a...
The Early Printing of Shakespeare’s Plays For all its literary distinction, drama in Sha...
The Modern Editor’s Task It will be clear from all this that the documents from which ev...
A USER’S GUIDE TO THE COMPLETE WORKS Readers of this edition may find it helpful to have ...
Contents This volume includes all the writings believed by the editors to have been writ...
Introductions Each work is preceded by a brief introduction summarizing essential backgr...
Order The works are printed in conjectured order of composition as determined by the edi...
The Words Every new edition of Shakespeare differs to some extent from its predecessors....
Stage Directions Stage directions are based on those of the early editions, where they v...
Act and Scene Divisions None of Shakespeare’s plays printed in his lifetime is divided i...
Titles Titles have been rethought, so that for example the play printed in the Folio as ...
THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE by DAVID CRYSTAL ANY encounter with Shakespeare, on page o...
Writing and speaking The identity between Early Modern and Modern English can be illustr...
Grammar The grammatical rules of the language have little changed during the past four c...
GRAMMAR IN DISCOURSE Grammar is different from vocabulary in the way it appears in connec...
GRAMMAR AND METRE Most of the really unfamiliar deviations from Modern English grammatica...
Line variations Many special effects are achieved by departing from metrical norms - mak...
Discourse interaction The aim of stylistic analysis is ultimately to explain the choices...
THE CHOICE BETWEEN thou AND you In Old English, thou (thee, thine, etc.) was singular an...
THE CHOICE BETWEEN VERSE AND PROSE Shakespeare’s practice in using verse or prose varied ...
Vocabulary Vocabulary is the area of language least subject to generalization. Unlike th...
CONTEMPORARY ALLUSIONS TO SHAKESPEARE MANY contemporary documents, some manuscript, some ...
COMMENDATORY POEMS AND PREFACES (1599-1640) Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare Honey-tongued Sha...
THE COMPLETE WORKS ...
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA THE accomplished elegance of the lyrical verse in The Two Gen...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona ...
1.1 Enter Valentine and Proteus VALENTINE Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus. ...
1.2 Enter Julia and Lucetta JULIA But say, Lucetta, now we are alone— Wouldst ...
1.3 Enter Antonio and Panthino ANTONIO Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that ...
2.1 Enter Valentine and Speed SPEED (offering Valentine a glove) Sir, your glove. ...
2.2 Enter Proteus and Julia PROTEUS Have patience, gentle Julia. JULIA I must w...
2.3 Enter Lance with his dog Crab LANCE (to the audience) Nay, ‘twill be this hour ere I...
2.4 Enter Valentine, Silvia, Thurio, and Speed SILVIA Servant! VALENTINE Mistress? ...
2.5 Enter Speed, and Lance with his dog Crab SPEED Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Mi...
2.6 Enter Proteus PROTEUS To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn; To love fair ...
2.7 Enter Julia and Lucetta JULIA Counsel, Lucetta. Gentle girl, assist me, An...
3.1 Enter Duke, Thurio, and Proteus DUKE Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile. ...
3.2 Enter the Duke and Thurio DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you ...
4.1 Enter the Outlaws FIRST OUTLAW Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger. SECOND ...
4.2 Enter Proteus PROTEUS Already have I been false to Valentine, And now I mu...
4.3 Enter Sir Eglamour EGLAMOUR This is the hour that Madam Silvia Entreated m...
4.4 Enter Lance and his dog Crab LANCE (to the audience) When a man’s servant shall play...
5.1 Enter Sir Eglamour EGLAMOUR The sun begins to gild the western sky, And no...
5.2 Enter Thurio, Proteus, and Julia dressed as a pageboy THURIO Sir Proteus, what sa...
5.3 Enter the Outlaws with Silvia captive FIRST OUTLAW Come, come, be patient. We mus...
5.4 Enter Valentine VALENTINE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadow...
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW The Taming of the Shrew was first published in the 1623 Folio, bu...
The Taming of the Shrew Induction 1 Enter Christopher Sly the beggar, and the Hostess ...
1.1 Flourish. Enter Lucentio and his man, Tranio LUCENTIO Tranio, since for the great...
1.2 Enter Petruccio and his man, Grumio PETRUCCIO Verona, for a while I take my leave ...
2.1 Enter Katherina and Bianca, her hands bound BIANCA Good sister, wrong me not, nor...
3.1 Enter Lucentio with books, as Cambio, Hortensio with a lute, as Licio, and Bianca LU...
3.2 Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio as Lucentio, Katherine, Bianca, and others, attendants ...
3.3 [Enter Lucentio as Cambio, and Tranio as Lucentio] TRANIO But, sir, to love conce...
4.1 Enter Grumio GRUMIO Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foul wa...
4.2 Enter Tranio as Lucentio, and Hortensio as Licio TRANIO Is’t possible, friend Lic...
4.3 Enter Katherine and Grumio GRUMIO No, no, forsooth. I dare not, for my life. K...
4.4 Enter Tranio as Lucentio, and the Pedant dressed like Vincentio, booted and bare-headed ...
4.5 Enter Lucentio and Biondello BIONDELLO Cambio. LUCENTIO What sayst thou, Biondell...
4.6 Enter Petruccio, Katherine, Hortensio, and servants PETRUCCIO Come on, i’ God’s n...
5.1 Enter Biondello, Lucentio, and Bianca. Gremio is out before BIONDELLO Softly and swi...
5.2 Enter Baptista, Vincentio, Gremio, the Pedant, Lucentio and Bianca, Petruccio, Katherine...
THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION (2 HENRY VI) WHEN Shakespeare’s history plays were ga...
The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster ...
1.1 Flourish of trumpets, then hautboys. Enter, at one door, King Henry and Humphrey Duke of...
1.2 Enter Duke Humphrey of Gloucester and his wife Eleanor, the Duchess DUCHESS Why d...
1.3 Enter Peter, the armourer’s man, with two or three other Petitioners FIRST PETITIONE...
1.4 Enter Margery Jordan, a witch; Sir John Hume and John Southwell, two priests; and Roger ...
2.1 Enter King Henry, Queen Margaret with her hawk on her fist, Duke Humphrey of Gloucester,...
2.2 Enter the Duke of York and the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick YORK Now, my good l...
2.3 Sound trumpets. Enter King Henry and state, with guard, to banish the Duchess: King Henr...
2.4 Enter Duke Humphrey of Gloucester and his men in mourning cloaks GLOUCESTER Thus ...
3.1 Sound a sennet. Enter to the parliament: enter two heralds before, then the Dukes of Buc...
3.2 ⌈The curtains are drawn apart, revealing Duke Humphrey of Gloucester in his bed with two...
3.3 Enter King Henry and the Earls of Salisbury and Warwick. Then the curtains be drawn reve...
4.1 Alarums within, and the chambers be discharged like as it were a fight at sea. And then ...
4.2 Enter two Rebels ⌈with long staves⌉ FIRST REBEL Come and get thee a sword, though ma...
4.3 Alarums to the fight; ⌈excursions,⌉ wherein both the Staffords are slain. Enter Jack Cad...
4.4 Enter King Henry ⌈reading⌉ a supplication, Queen Margaret carrying Suffolk’s head, the D...
4.5 Enter the Lord Scales upon the Tower, walking. Enter three or four Citizens below SC...
4.6 Enter Jack Cade, the Weaver, the Butcher, and the rest. Cade strikes his sword on London...
4.7 Alarums. ⌈Excursions, wherein⌉ Matthew Gough is slain, and all the rest of his men with ...
4.8 Sound trumpets. Enter King Henry, Queen Margaret, and the Duke of Somerset on the terrac...
4.9 Enter Jack Cade CADE Fie on ambitions; fie on myself that have a sword and yet am re...
5.1 Enter the Duke of York and his army of Irish with a drummer and soldiers bearing colours...
5.2 ⌈An alehouse sign: a castle.⌉ Alarums to the battle. Then enter the Duke of Somerset and...
5.3 ⌈Alarum again.⌉ Enter the Earl of Warwick WARWICK Clifford of Cumberland, ’tis Wa...
5.4 ⌈Alarums again. Then enter three or four bearing the Duke of Buckingham wounded to his t...
5.5 Alarum. Retreat. Enter the Duke of York, his sons Edward and Richard, and soldiers, incl...
RICHARD DUKE OF YORK (3 HENRY VI) THE play printed in the 1623 Folio as The Third Part...
The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth ...
1.1 A chair of state. Alarum. Enter Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, his two sons Edward, ...
1.2 Enter Richard, Edward Earl of March, and the Marquis of Montague RICHARD Brother,...
1.3 Alarums, and then enter the young Earl of Rutland and his Tutor, a chaplain RUTLAND ...
1.4 Alarum. Enter Richard Duke of York YORK The army of the Queen hath got the field; ...
2.1 A march. Enter Edward Earl of March and Richard, ⌈with a drummer and soldiers⌉ EDWARD...
2.2 ⌈York’s head is thrust out, above⌉ Flourish. Enter King Henry, Queen Margaret, Lord Clif...
2.3 Alarum. Excursions. Enter the Earl of Warwick WARWICK Forespent with toil, as run...
2.4 ⌈Alarums.⌉ Excursions. Enter Richard ⌈at one door⌉ and Lord Clifford ⌈at the other⌉ R...
2.5 Alarum. Enter King Henry KING HENRY This battle fares like to the morning’s war, ...
2.6 A loud alarum. Enter Lord Clifford, wounded ⌈with an arrow in his neck⌉ CLIFFORD H...
3.1 Enter two Gamekeepers, with crossbows in their hands FIRST GAMEKEEPER Under this ...
3.2 Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, George Duke of Clarence, and the Lady Gra...
3.3 ⌈Two⌉ chairs of state. Flourish. Enter King Louis of France, his sister the Lady Bona, L...
4.1 Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester, George Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Somerset, and the...
4.2 Enter the Earls of Warwick and Oxford in England, with French soldiers WARWICK Tr...
4.3 Enter three Watchmen, to guard King Edward’s tent FIRST WATCHMAN Come on, my mast...
4.4 With the drummer playing and trumpeter sounding, enter the Earl of Warwick, the Duke of ...
4.5 Enter Earl Rivers and his sister, Lady Gray, Edward’s queen RIVERS Madam, wha...
4.6 Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir William Stanley, ⌈with soldiers...
4.7 Flourish. Enter the Earl of Warwick and George Duke of Clarence ⌈with the crown⌉. Then e...
4.8 Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Lord Hastings, ⌈With a troo...
4.9 Flourish. Enter King Henry, the Earl of Warwick, the Marquis of Montague, George Duke of...
5.1 Enter the Earl of Warwick, the Mayar of Coventry, two Messengers, and others upon the wa...
5.2 Alarum and excursions. Enter King Edward bringing forth the Earl of Warwick, wounded ...
5.3 Flourish. Enter King Edward in triumph, with Richard Duke of Gloucester, George Duke of ...
5.4 Flourish. March. Enter Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of ...
5.5 Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and George Duke of Clarence wit...
5.6 Enter on the walls King Henry the Sixth, reading a book, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and...
5.7 ⌈A chair of state.⌉ Flourish. Enter King Edward, Lady Gray his Queen, George Duke off Cl...
HENRY VI PART ONE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND OTHERS THE play printed here first appear...
The First Part of Henry the Sixth ...
1.1 Dead march. Enter the funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedfor...
1.2 Sound a flourish. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of Alençon, and René Duke of Anjou...
1.3 Here alarum. The French are beaten back by the English with great loss. Enter Charles th...
1.4 Enter the Duke of Gloucester, with his Servingmen in blue coats GLOUCESTER I am c...
1.5 Enter the Master Gunner of Orleans with his Boy MASTER GUNNER Sirrah, thou know’s...
1.6 Enter the Earl of Salisbury and Lord Talbot above on the turrets with others, among them...
1.7 Here an alarum again, and Lord Talbot pursueth the Dauphin and driveth him. Then enter J...
1.8 Flourish. Enter on the walls Joan la Pucelle, Charles the Dauphin, René Duke of Anjou, t...
2.1 Enter ⌈on the walls⌉ a French Sergeant of a band, with two Sentinels SERGEANT Sir...
2.2 Enter Lord Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, a Captain, ⌈and soldiers⌉ BEDFO...
2.3 Enter the Countess of Auvergne and her Porter COUNTESS Porter, remember what I ga...
2.4 A rose brier. Enter Richard Plantagenet, the Earl of Warwick, the Duke of Somerset, Will...
2.5 Enter Edmund Mortimer, brought in a chair ⌈by⌉ his Keepers MORTIMER Kind keepers ...
3.1 Flourish. Enter young King Henry, the Dukes of Exeter and Gloucester, the Bishop of Winc...
3.2 Enter Joan la Pucelle, disguised, with four French Soldiers with sacks upon their backs ...
3.3 Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orléans, ⌈the Duke of Alençon, René Duke of An...
3.4 An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot in an excursion TALBOT France, thou shalt rue this t...
3.5 An alarum. Excursions. The Duke of Bedford brought in sick, in a chair. Enter Lord Talbo...
3.6 An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot, the Duke of Burgundy, and the rest of the English soldiers...
3.7 Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orléans, the Duke of Alençon, Joan la Pucelle,...
3.8 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter King Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke...
4.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter King Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke...
4.2 Enter Lord Talbot with a trumpeter and drummer and soldiers before Bordeaux TALBOT ...
4.3 Enter a Messenger that meets the Duke of York. Enter Richard Duke of York with a trumpet...
4.4 Enter the Duke of Somerset with his army SOMERSET (to a Captain) It is too late, ...
4.5 Enter Lord Talbot and his son John TALBOT O young John Talbot, I did send for the...
4.6 Alarum. Excursions, wherein Lord Talbot’s son John is hemmed about by French soldiers an...
4.7 Alarum. Excursions. Enter old Lord Talbot led by a Servant TALBOT Where is my oth...
5.1 Sennet. Enter King Henry, the Dukes of Gloucester and Exeter, ⌈and others⌉ KING HENRY...
5.2 Enter Charles the Dauphin ⌈reading a letter⌉, the Dukes of Burgundy and Alençon, the Bas...
5.3 Alarum. Excursions. Enter Joan la Pucelle JOAN The Regent conquers, and the Frenc...
5.4 Excursions. The Dukes of Burgundy and York fight hand to hand. The French fly. Joan la P...
5.5 Alarum. Enter the Earl of Suffolk with Margaret in his hand SUFFOLK Be what thou ...
5.6 Enter Richard Duke of York, the Earl of Warwick, and a Shepherd RICHARD DUKE OF YORK...
5.7 Enter the Earl of Suffolk, in conference with King Henry, and the Dukes of Gloucester an...
TITUS ANDRONICUS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WITH GEORGE PEELE SHAKESPEARE’S first, most s...
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ...
1.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter the Tribunes and Senators aloft, and then enter below Saturninus and h...
2.1 ⌈Enter Aaron alone.⌉ AARON Now climbeth Tamora Olympus’ top, Safe out of fo...
2.2 Enter Titus Andronicus and his three sons (Quintus, Lucius, and Martius), and Marcus, ma...
2.3 Enter Aaron alone, with gold AARON He that had wit would think that I had none, ...
2.4 Enter the Empress’ sons, Chiron and Demetrius, with Lavinia, her hands cut off and her t...
3.1 Enter the Judges, Tribunes, and Senators with Titus’ two sons, Martius and Quintus, boun...
3.2 A banquet. Enter Titus Andronicus, Marcus, Lavinia, and the boy (young Lucius) TITUS ...
4.1 Enter Lucius’ son and Lavinia running after him, and the boy flies from her with his boo...
4.2 Enter Aaron, Chiron, and Demetrius at one door, and at the other door young Lucius and a...
4.3 Enter Titus, old Marcus, his son Publius, young Lucius, and other gentlemen (Sempronius,...
4.4 Enter Saturninus, the Emperor, and Tamora, the Empress, and Chiron and Demetrius, her tw...
5.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter Lucius with an army of Goths, with drummers and soldiers LUCIUS ...
5.2 Enter Tamora and Chiron and Demetrius, her two sons, disguised TAMORA Thus, in th...
5.3 Enter Lucius, Marcus, and the Goths, with Aaron, prisoner, ⌈and an attendant with his ch...
RICHARD III IN narrative sequence, Richard III follows directly after Richard Duke of Yor...
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third ...
1.1 Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester RICHARD GLOUCESTER Now is the winter of our disc...
1.2 Enter gentlemen, bearing the corpse of King Henry the Sixth in an open coffin, with halb...
1.3 Enter Queen Elizabeth, Lord Rivers, ⌈Marquis Dorset⌉, and Lord Gray RIVERS (to Eliza...
1.4 Enter George Duke of Clarence and ⌈Sir Robert Brackenbury⌉ ⌈BRACKENBURY⌉ Why look...
2.1 Flourish. Enter King Edward, sick, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Marquis Dorset, Lord Rivers, Lo...
2.2 Enter the old Duchess of York with the two children of Clarence BOY Good grannam,...
2.3 Enter one Citizen at one door and another at the other FIRST CITIZEN Good morrow, ...
2.4 Enter ⌈Lord Cardinal⌉, young Duke of York, Queen Elizabeth, and the old Duchess of York ...
3.1 The Trumpets sound. Enter young Prince Edward, the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham, L...
3.2 Enter a Messenger to the door of Lord Hastings MESSENGER (knocking) My lord, my lord...
3.3 Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe with Halberdiers taking Lord Rivers, Lord Gray, and Sir Thom...
3.4 Enter the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Stanley Earl of Derby, Lord Hastings, Bishop of Ely, ...
3.5Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Buckingham in rotten armour, marvellous ...
3.6 Enter a Scrivener with a paper in his hand SCRIVENER Here is the indictment of th...
3.7 Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester at one door and the Duke of Buckingham at another R...
4.1 Enter Queen Elizabeth, the old Duchess of York, and Marquis Dorset at one door; Lady Ann...
4.2 Sound a sennet. Enter King Richard in pomp, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir William Catesby,...
4.3 Enter Sir James Tyrrell TYRRELL The tyrannous and bloody act is done— The ...
4.4 Enter old Queen Margaret QUEEN MARGARET So now prosperity begins to mellow ...
4.5 Enter Lord Stanley Earl of Derby and Sir Christopher, a priest STANLEY Sir Christ...
5.1 Enter the Duke of Buckingham with halberdiers, led by a Sheriff to execution BUCKING...
5.2 Enter Henry Earl of Richmond with a letter, the Earl of Oxford, Sir James Blunt, Sir Wal...
5.3 Enter King Richard in arms, with the Duke of Norfolk, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, ⌈Sir Willia...
5.4 Enter ⌈at another door⌉ Henry Earl of Richmond, Sir James Blunt, Sir William Brandon, ⌈t...
5.5 ⌈A table brought in.⌉ Enter King Richard, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, the Duke of Norfolk, Si...
5.6 Enter King Richard, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Sir William Catesby, and others KING RICH...
5.7 Alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir William Catesby CATESBY calling Rescue, my lord of ...
5.8 Alarum. Enter King Richard ⌈at one door⌉ and Henry Earl of Richmond ⌈at another⌉. They f...
VENUS AND ADONIS WITH Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare made his debut in print: his signatur...
Venus and Adonis Even as the sun with purple-coloured face Had ta’en his last lea...
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE DEDICATING Venus and Adonis to the Earl of Southampton in I953, Shake...
The Rape of Lucrece From the besieged Ardea all in post, Borne by the trustless w...
EDWARD III BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND OTHERS FIRST heard of in the Stationers’ Registe...
The Reign of King Edward the Third ...
Sc. 1 Enter King Edward, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Warwick,⌉ Edward Prince of Wales, Lo...
Sc. 2 Enter the Countess of Salisbury, above COUNTESS OF SALISBURY Alas, how much in ...
Sc. 3 Enter at one door the Earl of Derby from France. At another door, enter Lord Audley wi...
Sc. 4 Enter Jean King of France, his two sons (the Dauphin and Prince Philippe) and the Duc ...
Sc. 5 Enter at one door two Frenchmen without baggage. Enter at another door, meeting them, ...
Sc. 6 Enter King Edward and the Earl of Derby with soldiers and Gobin de Grace KING EDWA...
Sc. 7 Alarum. Enter and exit a many Frenchmen flying. Chasing after them, enter and exit Edw...
Sc. 8 Enter King Edward and Lord Audley KING EDWARD Lord Audley, whiles our son is in...
Sc. 9 Enter the Comte de Montfort with a coronet in his hand and with him the Earl of Salisb...
Sc. 10 Enter King Edward and the Earl of Derby with soldiers KING EDWARD Since they r...
Sc. 11 Enter the Dauphin and Villiers with a paper DAUPHIN I wonder, Villiers, thou s...
Sc. 12 Enter Edward Prince of Wales, Lord Audley and others PRINCE OF WALES Audley, t...
Sc. 13 Enter Jean King of France and the Dauphin KING OF FRANCE A sudden darkness hat...
Sc. 14 Alarum. Enter Edward Prince of Wales and the Comte d’Artois COMTE D’ARTOIS How...
Sc. 15 Alarum. Enter Jean King of France KING OF FRANCE Our multitudes are in themsel...
Sc. 16 Enter Lord Audley wounded and rescued by two Squires SQUIRE How fares my lord? ...
Sc. 17 Enter Edward Prince of Wales with his prisoners: jean King of France and the Dauphin,...
Sc. 18 Enter fat one door⌉, as Supplicants, six citizens of Calais in their shirts, barefoot...
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS ON the night of 28 December 1594, the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn...
The Comedy of Errors ...
1.1 Enter Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, with Egeon the Merchant of Syracuse, Jailer, and oth...
1.2 Enter ⌈from the bay⌉ Antipholus of Syracuse, Merchant ⌈of Ephesus⌉, and Dromio of Syracu...
2.1 Enter ⌈from the Phoenix⌉ Adriana, wife of Antipholus of Ephesus, with Luciana, her siste...
2.2 Enter Antipholus of Syracuse ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE The gold I gave to Dromio is ...
3.1 Enter Antipholus of Ephesus, his man Dromio, Angelo the goldsmith, and Balthasar the mer...
3.2 Enter ⌈from the Phoenix⌉ Luciana with Antipholus of Syracuse LUCIANA And may it b...
4.1 Enter Second Merchant, Angelo the goldsmith, and an Officer SECOND MERCHANT (to Ange...
4.2 Enter ⌈from the Phoenix⌉ Adriana and Luciana ADRIANA Ah, Luciana, did he tempt th...
4.3 Enter Antipholus of Syracuse, wearing the chain ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE There’s no...
4.4 Enter Antipholus of Ephesus with the Officer ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS Fear me not, m...
5.1 Enter Second Merchant and Angelo the goldsmith ANGELO I am sorry, sir, that I hav...
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST THE first, 1598 edition of Love’s Labour’s Lost is the earliest play...
Love’s Labour’s Lost ...
1.1 Enter Ferdinand, King of Navarre, Biron, Longueville, and Dumaine KING Let fame, ...
1.2 Enter Armado and Mote, his page ARMADO Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spir...
2.1 Enter the Princess of France with three attending ladies-Maria, Catherine, and Rosaline-...
3.1 Enter Armado the braggart, and Mote his boy ARMADO Warble, child; make passionate my...
4.1 Enter the Princess, a Forester, her ladies-Rosaline, Maria, and Catherine—and her lords,...
4.2 Enter Dull, Holofernes the pedant, and Nathaniel the curate NATHANIEL Very reverend ...
4.3 Enter Biron with a paper in his hand, alone BIRON The King, he is hunting the deer. ...
5.1 Enter Holofernes the pedant, Nathaniel the curate, and Anthony Dull HOLOFERNES Satis...
5.2 Enter the Princess and her ladies: Rosaline, Maria, and Catherine PRINCESS Sweeth...
LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON A BRIEF ACCOUNT IN 1598, Francis Meres called as witnesses to Shak...
RICHARD II THE subject matter of Richard II seemed inflammatorily topical to Shakespeare’...
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second ...
1.1 Enter King Richard and John of Gaunt, with the Lord Marshal, other nobles, and attendant...
1.2 Enter John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, with the Duchess of Gloucester JOHN OF GAUNT...
1.3 Enter Lord Marshal [with officers setting out chairs], and the Duke of Aumerle LORD ...
1.4 Enter King Richard with ⌈Green and Bagot⌉ at one door, and the Lord Aumerle at another ...
2.1 Enter John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, sick, ⌈carried in a chair,⌉ with the Duke of Yor...
2.2 Enter the Queen, Bushy, and Bagot BUSHY Madam, your majesty is too much sad. ...
2.3 Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, and the Earl of Northumberland BOL...
2.4 Enter the Earl of Salisbury and a Welsh Captain WELSH CAPTAIN My lord of Salisbur...
3.1 Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, the Duke of York, the Earl of Northumb...
3.2 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter King Richard, the Duke of Aumerle, the Bishop of Carlisle, and ⌈soldie...
3.3 Enter Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, the Duke of York, the Earl of Northumb...
3.4 Enter the Queen, with her two Ladies QUEEN What sport shall we devise here in thi...
4.1 Enter, as to Parliament, Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, the Duke of Aumerle...
5.1 Enter the Queen, with her Ladies QUEEN This way the King will come. This is the w...
5.2 Enter the Duke and Duchess of York DUCHESS OF YORK My lord, you told me you would...
5.3 Enter Bolingbroke, crowned King Henry, with Harry Percy, and other nobles KING HENRY...
5.4 Enter Sir Piers Exton, and his Men EXTON Didst thou not mark the King, what words...
5.5 Enter Richard, alone RICHARD I have been studying how I may compare This p...
5.6 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter King Henry and the Duke of York, ⌈with other lords and attendants⌉ ...
ROMEO AND JULIET ON its first appearance in print, in 1597, Romeo and Juliet was describe...
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Prologue Enter Chorus C...
1.1 Enter Samson and Gregory, of the house of Capulet, with swords and bucklers SAMSON G...
1.2 Enter Capulet, Paris, and ⌈Peter,⌉ a servingman CAPULET But Montague is bound as ...
1.3 Enter Capulet’s Wife and the Nurse CAPULET’S WIFE Nurse, where’s my daughter? Cal...
1.4 Enter Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio, as masquers, with five or six other masquers, ⌈bear...
1.5 ⌈Peter⌉ and other Servingmen come forth with napkins ⌈PETER⌉ Where’s Potpan, that he...
2.0 Enter Chorus CHORUS Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young aff...
2.1 Enter Romeo ROMEO Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull ...
2.2 Enter Friar Laurence, with a basket FRIAR LAURENCE The grey-eyed morn smiles on t...
2.3 Enter Benvolio and Mercutio MERCUTIO Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came he n...
2.4 Enter Juliet JULIET The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse. In ha...
2.5 Enter Friar Laurence and Romeo FRIAR LAURENCE So smile the heavens upon this holy...
3.1 Enter Mercutio with his page, Benvolio, and men BENVOLIO I pray thee, good Mercut...
3.2 Enter Juliet JULIET Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus...
3.3 Enter Friar Laurence FRIAR LAURENCE Romeo, come forth, come forth, thou fear-full...
3.4 Enter Capulet, his Wife, and Paris CAPULET Things have fall’n out, sir, so unluck...
3.5 Enter Romeo and Juliet aloft ⌈with the ladder of cords⌉ JULIET Wilt thou be gone? ...
4.1 Enter Friar Laurence and Paris FRIAR LAURENCE On Thursday, sir? The time is very ...
4.2 Enter Capulet, his Wife, the Nurse, and ⌈two⌉ Servingmen CAPULET (giving a Servingma...
4.3 Enter Juliet and the Nurse ⌈with garments⌉ JULIET Ay, those attires are best. But,...
4.4 Enter Capulet’s Wife, and the Nurse ⌈With herbs⌉ CAPULET’S WIFE Hold, take these k...
5.1 Enter Romeo ROMEO If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams ...
5.2 Enter Friar John at one door FRIAR JOHN Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho! En...
5.3 Enter Paris and his Page, with flowers, sweet water, and a torch PARIS Give me th...
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM FRANCIS MERES mentions A Midsummer Night’s Dream in his Palladi...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...
1.1 Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate, with others THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyt...
1.2 Enter Quince the carpenter, and Snug the joiner, and Bottom the weaver, and Flute the be...
2.1 Enter a Fairy at one door and Robin Goodfellow, a puck, at another ROBIN How now,...
2.2 Enter Titania, Queen of Fairies, with her train TITANIA Come, now a roundel and a...
3.1 Enter the clowns: Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, and Starveling BOTTOM Are we a...
3.2 Enter Oberon, King of Fairies OBERON I wonder if Titania be awaked, Then w...
3.3 ⌈Enter Lysander⌉ LYSANDER He goes before me, and still dares me on; When I ...
4.1 Enter Titania, Queen of Fairies, and Bottom the clown with the ass-head, and fairies: Pe...
4.2 Enter Quince, Flute, Snout, and Starveling QUINCE Have you sent to Bottom’s house? I...
5.1 Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, ⌈Egeus⌉, and attendant lords HIPPOLYTA ’Tis strange, my...
5.2 Enter Robin Goodfellow with a broom ROBIN Now the hungry lion roars, And t...
5.1 Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate HIPPOLYTA ’Tis strange, my Theseus, tha...
KING JOHN A PLAY called The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, published anonymo...
The Life and Death of King John ...
1.1 [Flourish.] Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, and the Earls of Pembroke, Essex, and Salisb...
2.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter before Angers ⌈at one door⌉ Philip King of France, Louis the Dauphin, ...
2.2 Enter Lady Constance, Arthur Duke of Brittaine, and the Earl of Salisbury CONSTANCE ...
3.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter King John and King Philip ⌈hand in hand⌉; Louis the Dauphin and Lady B...
3.2 Alarum; excursions. Enter the Bastard, with the Duke of Austria’s head BASTARD No...
3.3 Alarum; excursions; retreat. Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, Arthur Duke of Brittaine, t...
3.4 Enter King Philip, Louis the Dauphin, Cardinal Pandolf, and attendants KING PHILIP ...
4.1 Enter Hubert, and Executioners with a rope and irons HUBERT Heat me these irons h...
4.2 ⌈flourish.⌉ Enter King John, the Earls of Pembroke and Salisbury, and other lords. King ...
4.3 Enter Arthur Duke of Brittaine on the walls, disguised as a ship-boy ARTHUR The w...
5.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉Enter King John and Cardinal Pandolf, with attendants KING JOHN ⌈giving P...
5.2 Enter, ⌈marching⌉ in arms, Louis the Dauphin, the Earl off Salisbury, Count Melun, the E...
5.3 Alarum. Enter King John Fat one door and Hubert ⌈at another door⌉ KING JOHN How go...
5.4 ⌈Alarum.⌉Enter the Earls of Salisbury and Pembroke, and Lord Bigot SALISBURY I di...
5.5 ⌈Alarum,. retreat.⌉ Enter Louis the Dauphin, and his train LOUIS THE DAUPHIN The ...
5.6 Enter the Bastard ⌈With a light⌉and Hubert ⌈With a pistol⌉, severally HUBERT Who’...
5.7 Enter Prince Henry, the Earl of Salisbury, and Lord Bigot PRINCE HENRY It is too ...
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE ENTRY of ‘a book of The Merchant of Venice or otherwise called The...
The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice ...
1.1 Enter Antonio, Salerio, and Solanio ANTONIO In sooth, I know not why I am so sad....
1.2 Enter Portia with Nerissa, her waiting-woman PORTIA By my troth, Nerissa, my little ...
1.3 Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew SHYLOCK Three thousand ducats. Well. BASSANIO Ay,...
2.1 ⌈Flourish of cornetts.⌉ Enter the Prince of Morocco, a tawny Moor all in white, and thre...
2.2 Enter Lancelot the clown LANCELOT Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from ...
2.3 Enter Jessica and Lancelot., the clown JESSICA I am sorry thou wilt leave my fath...
2.4 Enter Graziano, Lorenzo, Salerio, and Salanio LORENZO Nay, we will slink away in supp...
2.5 Enter Shylock the Jew and his man that was, Lancelot the clown SHYLOCK Well, thou ...
2.6 Enter the masquers, Graziano and Salerio, ⌈with torchbearers⌉ GRAZIANO This is the...
2.7 ⌈Flourish of cornetts.⌉ Enter Portia with Morocco and both their trains PORTIA Go...
2.8 Enter Salerio and Solanio SALERIO Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail. Wit...
2.9 Enter Nerissa and a servitor NERISSA Quick, quick, I pray thee, draw the curtain ...
3.1 Enter Solanio and Salerio SOLANIO Now, what news on the Rialto? SALERIO Why, y...
3.2 Enter Bassanio, Portia, Nerissa, Graziano, and all their trains. ⌈The curtains are drawn...
3.3 Enter Shylock the Jew, Solanio, Antonio, and the jailer SHYLOCK Jailer, look to h...
3.4 Enter Portia, Nerissa, Lorenzo, Jessica, and Balthasar, a man of Portia’s LORENZO (t...
3.5 Enter Lancelot the clown, and Jessica LANCELOT Yes, truly; for look you, the sins of...
4.1 Enter the Duke, the magnificoes, Antonio, Bassanio, Graziano, and Salerio DUKE Wh...
4.2 Enter Portia and Nerissa, still disguised PORTIA Enquire the Jew’s house out, giv...
5.1 Enter Lorenzo and Jessica LORENZO The moon shines bright. In such a night as this...
1 HENRY IV THE play described in the 1623 Folio as The First Part of Henry the Fourth had...
The History of Henry the Fourth ...
1.1 Enter King Henry, Lord John of Lancaster, and the Earl of Westmorland, with other ⌈lords...
1.2 Enter Harry Prince of Wales and Sir John Oldcastle SIR JOHN Now, Hal, what time of day i...
1.3 Enter the King, the Earls of Northumberland and Worcester, Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt, wi...
2.1 Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand FIRST CARRIER Heigh-ho! An’t be not four...
2.2 Enter Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, ⌈and Russell⌉ POINS Come, shelter, shelter! ⌈Ex...
2.3 Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised in buckram suits PRINCE HARRY The thieves ha...
2.4 Enter Hotspur, reading a letter HOTSPUR ‘But for mine own part, my lord, I could be ...
2.5 Enter Prince Harry PRINCE HARRY Ned, prithee come out of that fat room, and lend me ...
3.1 Enter Hotspur, the Earl of Worcester, Lord Mortimer, and Owain Glyndŵr, with a map M...
3.2 Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, and lords KING HENRY Lords, give us leave—the Pri...
3.3 Enter Sir John Oldcastle With a truncheon at his waist⌉, and Russell SIR JOHN Russel...
4.1 Enter Hotspur and the Earls of,Worcester and Douglas HOTSPUR Well said, my noble ...
4.2 Enter Sir John Oldcastle and Russell SIR JOHN Russell, get thee before to Coventry; ...
4.3 Enter Hotspur, the Earls of Worcester and Douglas, and Sir Richard Vernon HOTSPUR ...
4.4 Enter the Archbishop of York, and Sir Michael ARCHBISHOP (giving letters) Hie, go...
5.1 Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord John of Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, Sir Wal...
5.2 Enter the Earl of Worcester and Sir Richard Vernon WORCESTER O no, my nephew must...
5.3 King Henry enters with his power. Alarum, and exeunt to the battle. Then enter the Earl ...
5.4 Alarum. Excursions. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, wounded, Lord John of Lancaster, and...
5.5 The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord John of Lancaster, the Earl of ...
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR A LEGEND dating from 1702 claims that Shakespeare wrote The Me...
The Merry Wives of Windsor ...
1.1 Enter Justice Shallow, Master Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans SHALLOW Sir Hugh, persuade...
1.2 Enter Sir Hugh Evans and Simple, ⌈from dinner⌉ EVANS Go your ways, and ask of Doctor ...
1.3 Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Nim, Pistol, and Robin SIR JOHN Mine Host of the ...
1.4 Enter Mistress Quickly and Simple MISTRESS QUICKLY What, John Rugby! Enter John R...
2.1 Enter Mistress Page, with a letter MISTRESS PAGE What, have I scaped love-letters in...
2.2 Enter Sir John Falstaff and Pistol SIR JOHN I will not lend thee a penny. PISTOL ...
2.3 Enter Doctor Caius and John Rugby, with rapiers CAIUS Jack Rugby! RUGBY Sir. CAIUS...
3.1 Enter Sir Hugh Evans ⌈with a rapier, and bearing a book⌉ and Simple ⌈bearing Evans’s gow...
3.2 Enter Robin, followed by Mistress Page MISTRESS PAGE Nay, keep your way, little gall...
3.3 Enter Mistress Ford and Mistress Page MISTRESS FORD What, John! What, Robert! MIS...
3.4 Enter Master Fenton and Anne Page FENTON I see I cannot get thy father’s love; ...
3.5 Enter Sir John Falstaff SIR JOHN Bardolph, I say! Enter Bardolph BARDOLPH Here...
4.1 Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Quickly, and William Page MISTRESS PAGE Is he at Mistr...
4.2 Enter Sir John Falstaff and Mistress Ford SIR JOHN Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath e...
4.3 Enter the Host of the Garter and Bardolph BARDOLPH Sir, the Germans desire to have t...
4.4 Enter Master Page, Master Ford, Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, and Sir Hugh Evans EVA...
4.5 Enter the Host of the Garter and Simple HOST What wouldst thou have, boor? What, thi...
5.1 Enter Sir John Falstaff and Mistress Quickly SIR JOHN Prithee, no more prattling; go...
5.2 Enter Master Page, justice Shallow, and Master Slender PAGE Come, come, we’ll couch ...
5.3 Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, and Doctor Caius MISTRESS PAGE Master Doctor, my...
5.4 Enter Sir Hugh Evans, ⌈Disguised as a satyr,⌉ and ⌈William Page and others⌉ children, di...
5.5 Enter Sir John Falstaff, disguised as Herne, ⌈witch horns on his head, and bearing a cha...
2 HENRY IV 2 Henry IV, printed in 1600 as The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, was not re...
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth Induction Enter Rumour ⌈in a robe⌉ painted full ...
1.1 Enter Lord Bardolph at one door. ⌈He crosses the stage to another door⌉ LORD BARDOLPH...
1.2 Enter Sir John Falstaff, ⌈followed by⌉ his Page bearing his sword and buckler SIR JOH...
1.3 Enter the Archbishop of York, Thomas Mowbray the Earl Marshal, Lord Hastings, and Lord B...
2.1 Enter Mistress Quickly (the hostess of a tavern), and an officer, Fang ⌈followed at a di...
2.2 Enter Prince Harry and Poins PRINCE HARRY Before God, I am exceeding weary. POINS...
2.3 Enter the Earl of Northumberland, Lady Northumberland, and Lady Percy NORTHUMBERLAND...
2.4 ⌈A table and chairs set forth.⌉ Enter a Drawer ⌈With wind⌉ and another Drawer ⌈With a di...
3.1 Enter King Henry in his nightgown, with a page KING HENRY (giving letters) Go cal...
3.2 Enter justice Shallow and Justice Silence SHALLOW Come on, come on, come on! Give me...
4.1 Enter ⌈in arms⌉ the Archbishop of York, Thomas Mowbray, Lord Hastings, and ⌈Coleville⌉, ...
4.2 Alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Falstaff and Coleville SIR JOHN What’s your name,...
4.3 Enter King Henry ⌈in his bed⌉, attended by the Earl of Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence,...
5.1 Enter Shallow, ⌈Silence,⌉ Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, and the Page SHALLOW (to Sir ...
5.2 Enter the Earl of Warwick ⌈at one door⌉, and the Lord Chief Justice ⌈at another door⌉ ...
5.3 ⌈A table and chairs set forth.⌉ Enter Sir John Falstaff, Shallow, Silence, Davy ⌈With ve...
5.4 Enter Beadles, dragging in Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet MISTRESS QUICKLY No, ...
5.5 Enter ⌈two⌉ Grooms, strewing rushes FIRST GROOM More rushes, more rushes! SECOND ...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Much Ado About Nothing is not mentioned in the list of plays by Sh...
Much Ado About Nothing ...
1.1 Enter Leonato, governor of Messina, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his niece, with a Me...
1.2 Enter Leonato and Antonio, an old man brother to Leonato, severally LEONATO How now,...
1.3 Enter Don John the bastard and Conrad, his companion CONRAD What the goodyear, my lo...
2.1 Enter Leonato, Antonio his brother, Hero his daughter, Beatrice his niece, ⌈Margaret, an...
2.2 Enter Don John and Borachio DON JOHN It is so. The Count Claudio shall marry the dau...
2.3 Enter Benedick BENEDICK Boy! ⌈Enter Boy⌉ BOY Signor? BENEDICK In my chamber wi...
3.1 Enter Hero and two gentlewomen, Margaret and Ursula HERO Good Margaret, run thee ...
3.2 Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Claudio, Benedick, and Leonato DON PEDRO I do but stay t...
3.3 Enter Dogberry and his compartner Verges, with the Watch DOGBERRY Are you good men a...
3.4 Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula HERO Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desi...
3.5 Enter Leonato, and Dogberry the constable, and Verges the headborough LEONATO What w...
4.1 Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Don John the bastard, Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Bened...
4.2 Enter Dogberry and Verges the constables, and the Sexton, in gowns, and the Watch, with ...
5.1 Enter Leonato and Antonio his brother ANTONIO If you go on thus, you will kill yourse...
5.2 Enter Benedick and Margaret BENEDICK Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve wel...
5.3 Enter Claudio, Don Pedro the Prince, and three or four with tapers, all in black CLA...
5.4 Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedick, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula, Friar Francis, and Hero ...
HENRY V THE Chorus to Act 5 of Henry V contains an uncharacteristic, direct topical refer...
The Life of Henry the Fifth Prologue Enter Chorus as Prologue CHORUS O for a muse of ...
1.1 Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely CANTERBURY My lord, I’ll...
1.2 Enter King Harry, the Dukes of Gloucester, ⌈Clarence⌉, and Exeter, and the Earls of Warw...
2.1 Enter Corporal Nim and Lieutenant Bardolph BARDOLPH Well met, Corporal Nim. NIM G...
2.2 Enter the Dukes of Exeter and ⌈Gloucester⌉, and the Earl of Westmorland ⌈GLOUCESTER⌉...
2.3 Enter Ensign Pistol, Corporal Nim, Lieutenant Bardolph, Boy, and Hostess Quickly HOS...
2.4 Flourish. Enter King Charles the Sixth of France, the Dauphin, the Constable, and the Du...
3.1 Alarum. Enter King Harry ⌈and the English army, with⌉ scaling ladders KING HARRY ...
3.2 Enter Nim, Bardolph, Ensign Pistol, and Boy BARDOLPH On, on, on, on, oh! To the brea...
3.3 Enter Captain Gower ⌈and Captain Fluellen, meeting⌉ GOWER Captain Fluellen, you must ...
3.4 Enter Princess Catherine and Alice, an old gentlewoman CATHERINE Alice, tu as été en...
3.5 Enter King Charles the Sixth of France, the Dauphin, the Constable, the Duke of ⌈Bourbon...
3.6 Enter Captains Gower and Fluellen, meeting GOWER How now, Captain Fluellen, come you...
3.7 Enter the Constable, Lord Rambures, the Dukes of Orléans and ⌈Bourbon⌉, with others ...
4.0 Enter Chorus CHORUS Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmu...
4.1 Enter King Harry and the Duke of Gloucester, then the Duke of ⌈Clarence⌉ KING HARRY ...
4.2 Enter the Dukes of ⌈Bourbon⌉and Orléans, and Lord Rambures ORLÉANS The sun doth gild...
4.3 Enter the Dukes of Gloucester, ⌈Clarence⌉, and Exeter, the Earls of Salisbury and ⌈Warwi...
4.4 Alarum. Excursions. Enter Pistol, a French soldier, and the Boy PISTOL Yield, cur. ...
4.5 Enter the Constable, the Dukes of Orléans and ⌈Bourbon⌉, and Lord Rambures CONSTABLE...
4.6 Alarum. Enter King Harry and his train, with prisoners KING HARRY Well have we do...
4.7 Enter Captains Fluellen and Gower FLUELLEN Kill the poys and the luggage! ‘Tis expre...
4.8 Enter Captain Gower and Williams WILLIAMS I warrant it is to knight you, captain. Ent...
5.0 Enter Chorus CHORUS Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story That I...
5.1 Enter Captain Gower and Captain Fluellen, with a leek in his cap and a cudgel GOWER ...
5.2 Enter at one door King Harry, the Dukes of Exeter and ⌈Clarence⌉, the Earl of Warwick, a...
JULIUS CAESAR ON 21 September 1599 a Swiss doctor, Thomas Platter, saw what can only have...
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar ...
1.1 Enter Flavius, Murellus, and certain commoners over the stage FLAVIUS Hence, home...
1.2 ⌈Loud music.⌉ Enter Caesar, Antony stripped for the course, Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, C...
1.3 Thunder and lightning. Enter Casca, ⌈at one door, with his sword drawn,⌉ and Cicero ⌈at ...
2.1 Enter Brutus in his orchard BRUTUS What, Lucius, ho!— I cannot by the progress of...
2.2 Thunder and lightning. Enter Julius Caesar in his nightgown CAESAR Nor heaven nor...
2.3 Enter Artemidorus, reading a letter ARTEMIDORUS ’Caesar, beware of Brutus. Take heed...
2.4 Enter Portia and Lucius PORTIA I prithee, boy, run to the Senate House. St...
3.1 Enter ⌈at one door⌉ Artemidorus, the Soothsayer, and citizens. Flourish. Enter ⌈at anoth...
3.2 Enter Brutus and Cassius, with the Plebeians ALL THE PLEBEIANS We will be satisfi...
3.3 Enter Cinna the poet CINNA I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar, ...
4.1 Enter Antony with papers, Octavius, and Lepidus ANTONY These many, then, shall di...
4.2 Drum. Enter Brutus, Lucius, and the army. ⌈Lucillius,⌉ Titinius, and Pindarus meet them ...
5.1 Enter Octavius, Antony, and their army OCTAVIUS Now, Antony, our hopes are answer...
5.2 Alarum. Enter Brutus and Messala BRUTUS Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these...
5.3 Alarums. Enter Cassius ⌈with an ensign⌉, and Titinius CASSIUS O look, Titinius, l...
5.4 Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Lucillius, and Flavius BRUTUS Yet, cou...
5.5 Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius BRUTUS Come, poor remains ...
AS YOU LIKE IT As You Like It is first heard of in the Stationers’ Register on 4 August 1...
As You Like It ...
1.1 Enter Orlando and Adam ORLANDO As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeat...
1.2 Enter Rosalind and Celia CELIA I pray thee Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry. ROSA...
13. Enter Celia and Rosalind CELIA Why cousin, why Rosalind—Cupid have mercy, not a word...
2.1 Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, and two or three Lords dressed as foresters DUKE SENIOR ...
2.2 Enter Duke Frederick, with Lords DUKE FREDERICK Can it be possible that no man sa...
2.3 Enter Orlando and Adam, meeting ORLANDO Who’s there? ADAM What, my young maste...
2.4 Enter Rosalind in man’s clothes as Ganymede; Celia as Aliena, a shepherdess; and Touchst...
2.5 Enter Amiens, Jaques, and other Lords dressed as foresters [AMIENS] (sings) Under...
2.6 Enter Orlando and Adam ADAM Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food. Her...
2.7 Enter Duke Senior and Lords dressed as outlaws DUKE SENIOR I think he be transfor...
3.1 Enter Duke Frederick, Lords, and Oliver DUKE FREDERICK Not see him since? Sir, si...
3.2 Enter Orlando with a paper ORLANDO Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love; ...
3.3 Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey, followed by Jaques TOUCHSTONE Come apace, goo...
3.4 Enter Rosalind as Ganymede and Celia as Aliena ROSALIND Never talk to me. I will wee...
3.5 Enter Silvius and Phoebe SILVIUS Sweet Phoebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phoebe. ...
4.1 Enter Rosalind as Ganymede, Celia as Aliena, and Jaques JAQUES I prithee, pretty you...
4.2 Enter Jaques and Lords dressed as foresters JAQUES Which is he that killed the deer? FIR...
4.3 Enter Rosalind as Ganymede and Celia as Aliena ROSALIND How say you now? Is it not p...
5.1 Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey TOUCHSTONE We shall find a time, Audrey. Patie...
5.2 Enter Orlando and Oliver ORLANDO Is’t possible that on so little acquaintance you sh...
5.3 Enter Touchstone the clown and Audrey TOUCHSTONE Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey,...
5.4 Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver, and Celia as Aliena DUKE SENIOR ...
HAMLET SEVERAL references from 1589 onwards witness the existence of a play about Hamlet,...
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ...
1.1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels, at several doors BARNARDO Who’s there? ...
1.2 Flourish. Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, members of the Council, s...
1.3 Enter Laertes and Ophelia, his sister LAERTES My necessaries are inbarqued. Farew...
1.4 Enter Prince Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus HAMLET The air bites shrewdly, it is ...
1.5 Enter the Ghost, and Prince Hamlet following HAMLET Whither wilt thou lead me? Sp...
2.1 Enter old Polonius with his man Reynaldo POLONIUS Give him this money and these n...
2.2 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with o...
3.1 Enter King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and l...
3.2 Enter Prince Hamlet and two or three of the Players HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray ...
3.3 Enter King Claudius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern KING CLAUDIUS I like him not, ...
3.4 Enter Queen Gertrude and Polonius POLONIUS A will come straight. Look you lay hom...
4.1 Enter King Claudius to Queen Gertrude KING CLAUDIUS There’s matter in these sighs...
4.2 Enter Prince Hamlet HAMLET Safely stowed. ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN (within) ...
4.3 Enter King Claudius KING CLAUDIUS I have sent to seek him, and to find the body. ...
4.4 Enter Fortinbras with an army over the stage FORTINBRAS Go, captain, from me gree...
4.5 Enter Queen Gertrude and Horatio QUEEN GERTRUDE I will not speak with her. HOR...
4.6 Enter Horatio with a Servant HORATIO What are they that would speak with me? S...
4.7 Enter King Claudius and Laertes KING CLAUDIUS Now must your conscience my acquitt...
5.1 Enter two Clowns ⌈carrying a spade and a pickaxe⌉ FIRST CLOWN Is she to be buried in ...
5.2 Enter Prince Hamlet and Horatio HAMLET So much for this, sir. Now, let me see, th...
TWELFTH NIGHT TWELFTH NIGHT, the end of the Christmas season, was traditionally a time of...
Twelfth Night, or What You Will ...
1.1 Music. Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other lords ORSINO If music be the...
1.2 Enter Viola, a Captain, and sailors VIOLA What country, friends, is this? CAPT...
1.3 Enter Sir Toby Belch and Maria SIR TOBY What a plague means my niece to take the dea...
1.4 Enter Valentine, and Viola (as Cesario) in man’s attire VALENTINE If the Duke contin...
1.5 Enter Maria, and Feste, the clown MARIA Nay, either tell me where thou hast been or ...
2.1 Enter Antonio and Sebastian ANTONIO Will you stay no longer, nor will you not that ...
2.2 Enter Viola as Cesario, and Malvolio, at several doors MALVOLIO Were not you ev’n no...
2.3 Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew SIR TOBY Approach, Sir Andrew. Not to be abed after mi...
2.4 Enter the Duke, Viola as Cesario, Curio, and others ORSINO Give me some music. No...
2.5 Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Fabian SIR TOBY Come thy ways, Signor Fabian. FAB...
3.1 Enter Viola as Cesario and Feste the clown, with ⌈pipe and⌉ tabor VIOLA Save thee, f...
3.2 Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Fabian SIR ANDREW No, faith, I’ll not stay a jot lon...
3.3 Enter Sebastian and Antonio SEBASTIAN I would not by my will have troubled you, ...
3.4 Enter Olivia and Maria OLIVIA (aside) I have sent after him, he says he’ll come. ...
4.1 Enter Sebastian and Feste, the clown FESTE Will you make me believe that I am not se...
4.2 Enter Maria carrying a gown and false beard, and Feste, the clown MARIA Nay, I prith...
4.3 Enter Sebastian SEBASTIAN This is the air, that is the glorious sun. This ...
5.1 Enter Feste the clown and Fabian FABIAN Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his lette...
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Troilus and Cressida, first heard of in a Stationers’ Register entry...
Troilus and Cressida ...
Prologue Enter the Prologue armed PROLOGUE In Troy there lies the scene. From isl...
1.1 Enter Pandarus, and Troilus armed TROILUS Call here my varlet. I’ll unarm again. ...
1.2 Enter ⌈above⌉ Cressida and her servant Alexander CRESSIDA Who were those went by?...
1.3 Sennet. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, and Menelaus, with others AGAMEM...
2.1 Enter Ajax and Thersites AJAX Thersites. THERSITES Agamemnon—how if he had boils,...
2.2 ⌈Sennet.⌉ Enter King Priam, Hector, Troilus, Paris, and Helenus PRIAM After so ma...
2.3 Enter Thersites THERSITES How now, Thersites? What, lost in the labyrinth of thy fur...
3.1 Music sounds within. Enter Pandarus ⌈at one door⌉ and a Servant ⌈at another door⌉ PAN...
3.2 Enter Pandarus ⌈at one door⌉ and Troilus’ man ⌈at another door⌉ PANDARUS How now, whe...
3.3 Flourish. Enter Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Ajax, and Calchas CA...
4.1 Enter at one door Aeneas with a torch; at another Paris, Deiphobus, Antenor, and Diomede...
4.2 Enter Troilus and Cressida TROILUS Dear, trouble not yourself. The morn is cold. ...
4.3 Enter Pandarus and Cressida PANDARUS Is’t possible? No sooner got but lost. The devi...
4.4 Enter Paris, Troilus, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Antenor, and Diomedes PARIS It is great ...
4.5 Enter Pandarus and Cressida PANDARUS Be moderate, be moderate. CRESSIDA Why te...
4.6 Enter Ajax armed, Achilles, Patroclus, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Ulysses, Nestor, a trumpeter...
4.7 ⌈Enter Hector and Ajax fighting, and Aeneas and Diomedes interposing.⌉ Trumpets cease ...
5.1 Enter Achilles and Patroclus ACHILLES I’ll heat his blood with Greekish wine toni...
5.3 Enter Hector armed, and Andromache ANDROMACHE When was my lord so much ungently t...
5.4 Alarum. Enter Thersites ⌈in⌉ excursions THERSITES Now they are clapper-clawing one a...
5.5 Enter Diomedes and Servants DIOMEDES Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus’ horse...
5.6 Enter Ajax AJAX Troilus, thou coward Troilus! Show thy head! Enter Diomedes ...
5.7 Enter Achilles with Myrmidons ACHILLES Come here about me, you my Myrmidons. ...
5.8 Enter Menelaus and Paris, fighting, ⌈then⌉ Thersites THERSITES The cuckold and the c...
5.9 Enter Hector ⌈dragging⌉ the one in sumptuous armour HECTOR ⌈taking off the helmet⌉ ...
5.10 A retreat is sounded. Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes, and the rest, ...
5.11 Enter Aeneas, Paris, Antenor, and Deiphobus AENEAS Stand, ho! Yet are we masters...
SONNETS AND ‘A LOVER’S COMPLAINT’ SHAKESPEARE’S Sonnets were published as a collection by...
Sonnets 1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s ros...
A Lover’s Complaint From off a hill whose concave womb re-worded A plaintful stor...
VARIOUS POEMS A POET like Shakespeare may frequently have been asked to write verses for ...
Various Poems ...
A Song 1 Shall I die? Shall I fly Lovers’ baits and deceits, sorrow bree...
‘Upon a pair of gloves that master sent to his mistress’ The gift is small, Th...
Poems from The Passionate Pilgrim 4 Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook With yo...
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music 15 It was a lording’s daughter, the fairest one of th...
The Phoenix and Turtle Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree ...
Threnos Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed ...
Written upon the West end thereof Not monumental stone preserves our fame, Nor sky...
An Epitaph on Elias James When God was pleased, the world unwilling yet, Elias Jam...
...
Another Epitaph on John Combe He being dead, and making the poor his heirs, William ...
Upon the King At the foot of the effigy of King James I, before his Works (1616) Crown...
Epitaph on Himself Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed h...
SIR THOMAS MORE BY ANTHONY MUNDAY AND HENRY CHETTLE, WITH REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS BY THOM...
NOTE ON SPECIAL FEATURES OF PRESENTATION Complexities in the manuscript have led to the ...
The Book of Sir Thomas More [Original Text (monday)] [Tilney] Leave out the in...
Sc. 1 Enter at one end John Lincoln with George Betts and Clown Betts together. At the other...
Sc. 2 An arras is drawn, and behind it, as in sessions, sit the Lord Mayor, Justice Suresby,...
Sc. 3 Enter the Earls of Shrewsbury and Surrey, Sir Thomas Palmer, and Sir Roger Cholmley ...
Sc. 4 Enter Lincoln, Betts, Williamson, Doll. Enter Lincoln, [George] Betts, [Clown Betts,] ...
Sc. 5 Enter at one door Sir Thomas More and Lord Mayor; at another door Sir John Munday, hur...
Sc. 6 Enter Lincoln, Doll, Clown [Betts,] George Betts, Williamson, [Sherwin,] others: [Citi...
Sc. 7 Enter Master Sheriff, and meet a Messenger SHERIFF Messenger, what news? MES...
Sc. 8 A table being covered with a green carpet, a state cushion on it, and the purse and ma...
Sc. 9 Enter a Messenger to More. Messenger. T. Goodal MESSENGER My honourable lord, t...
Sc. 10 Enter the Earls of Shrewsbury, Surrey, Bishop of Rochester, and other lords, [attende...
Sc. 11 Enter the Lady More, her two Daughters, [one of them Roper’s Wife,] and Master Roper,...
Sc. 12 Enter the Bishop of Rochester, Surrey, Shrewsbury, Lieutenant of the Tower, and warde...
Sc. 13 Enter Sir Thomas More, his Lady, Daughters, ⌈one of them Roper’s Wife,⌉ Master Roper,...
Sc. 14 Enter the Warders of the Tower, with halberds FIRST WARDER Ho, make a guard there...
Sc. 15 Enter Butler, Brewer, Porter, and Horse-keeper, several ways BUTLER Robin Brewer,...
Sc. 16 Enter Sir Thomas More, the Lieutenant, and a Servant attending, as in his chamber in ...
Sc. 17 Enter the Sheriffs of London and their Officers at one door, the Warders with their h...
MEASURE FOR MEASURE BY SHAKESPEARE, ADAPTED BY THOMAS MIDDLETON Measure for Measure, f...
Measure for Measure ...
1.1 Enter the Duke, Escalus, and other lords DUKE Escalus. ESCALUS My lord. DUKE Of...
1.2 Enter Lucio, and two other Gentlemen LUCIO If the Duke with the other dukes come not...
1.3 Enter the Duke and a Friar DUKE No, holy father, throw away that thought. ...
1.4 Enter Isabella, and Francesca, a nun ISABELLA And have you nuns no farther privil...
2.1 Enter Angelo, Escalus, and servants; a Justice ANGELO We must not make a scarecro...
2.2 Enter the Provost and a Servant SERVANT He’s hearing of a cause; he will come str...
2.3 Enter ⌈ at one door⌉ the Duke, disguised as a friar, and ⌈ at another door⌉ the Provost ...
2.4 Enter Angelo ANGELO When I would pray and think, I think and pray To sever...
3.1 Enter the Duke, disguised as a friar, Claudio, and the Provost DUKE So then you h...
4.1 Mariana ⌈discoveredwith a Boy singing BOY Take, O take those lips away Tha...
4.2 Enter the Provost and Pompey PROVOST Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man’s he...
4.3 Enter Pompey POMPEY I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession...
4.4 Enter Angelo and Escalus ESCALUS Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other. ...
4.5 Enter the Duke, in his own habit, and Friar Peter DUKE These letters at fit time ...
4.6 Enter Isabella and Mariana ISABELLA To speak so indirectly I am loath— I w...
5.1 Enter ⌈at one door⌉ the Duke, Varrius, and lords, ⌈at another door⌉ Angelo, Escalus, Luc...
OTHELLO Othello was given before James I in the Banqueting House at Whitehall on I Novemb...
The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice ...
1.1 Enter Iago and Roderigo RODERIGO Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly ...
1.2 Enter Othello, Iago, and attendants with torches IAGO Though in the trade of war ...
1.3 Enter the Duke and Senators set at a table, with lights and officers DUKE There i...
2.1 Enter below Montano, Governor of Cyprus; two other gentlemen ⌈above⌉ MONTANO What ...
2.2 Enter Othello’s Herald reading a proclamation HERALD It is Othello’s pleasure—our no...
2.3 Enter Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, and attendants OTHELLO Good Michael, look you t...
3.1 Enter Cassio with Musicians CASSIO Masters, play here—I will content your pains— ...
3.2 Enter Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen OTHELLO These letters give, Iago, to the pilot...
3.3 Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia DESDEMONA Be thou assured, good Cassio, I wil...
3.4 Enter Desdemona, Emilia, and the Clown DESDEMONA Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutena...
4.1 Enter Iago and Othello IAGO Will you think so? OTHELLO Think so, Iago? IAGO...
4.2 Enter Othello and Emilia OTHELLO You have seen nothing then? EMILIA Nor ever h...
4.3 Enter Othello, Desdemona, Lodovico, Emilia, and attendants LODOVICO I do beseech ...
5.1 Enter Iago and Roderigo IAGO Here, stand behind this bulk. Straight will he come....
5.2 Enter Othello with a light. ⌈He draws back a curtain, revealing⌉ Desdemona asleep in her...
THE HISTORY OF KING LEAR THE QUARTO TEXT King Lear first appeared in print in a quarto...
The History of King Lear ...
Sc. 1 Enter the Earl of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, and Edmund the bastard KENT I thou...
Sc. 2 Enter Edmund the bastard EDMUND Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law ...
Sc. 3 Enter Gonoril and Oswald, her gentleman GONORIL Did my father strike my gentlem...
Sc. 4 Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised KENT If but as well I other accents borrow ...
Sc. 5 Enter King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, and Lear’s Fool LEAR ⌈to Kent⌉ Go you...
Sc. 6 Enter Edmund the bastard, and Curan, meeting EDMUND Save thee, Curan. CURAN And...
Sc. 7 Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised, at one door, and Oswald the steward, at another doo...
Sc. 8 Storm. Enter the Earl of Kent disguised, and First Gentleman, at several doors KEN...
Sc. 9 Storm. Enter King Lear and his Fool LEAR Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! Rag...
Sc. 10 Enter the Duke of Gloucester and Edmund the bastard, with lights GLOUCESTER Al...
Sc. 11 Storm. Enter King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, and Lear’s Fool KENT Here ...
Sc. 12 Enter the Duke of Cornwall and Edmund the bastard CORNWALL I will have my revenge...
Sc. 13 Enter the Duke of Gloucester and King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, Lear’s Fool, ...
Sc. 14 Enter the Duke of Cornwall and Regan, and Gonoril and Edmund the bastard, and Servant...
Sc. 15 Enter Edgar as a Bedlam beggar EDGAR Yet better thus and known to be contemned...
Sc. 16 Enter ⌈at one door⌉ Gonoril and Edmund the bastard GONORIL Welcome, my lord. I...
Sc. 17 Enter the Earl of Kent disguised, and ⌈First⌉ Gentleman KENT Why the King of Fran...
Sc. 18 Enter Queen Cordelia, a Doctor, and others CORDELIA Alack, ’tis he! Why, he wa...
Sc. 19 Enter Regan and Oswald, Gonoril’s steward REGAN But are my brother’s powers se...
Sc. 20 Enter Edgar disguised as a peasant, with a staff, guiding the blind Duke of Glouceste...
Sc. 21 ⌈Soft music.⌉ Enter Queen Cordelia, and the Earl of Kent, disguised CORDELIA O th...
Sc. 22 Enter Edmund, Regan, and their powers EDMUND Know of the Duke if his last purp...
Sc. 23 Alarum. The powers of France pass over the stage ⌈led by⌉ Queen Cordelia with her fat...
Sc. 24 Enter Edmund with King Lear and Queen Cordelia prisoners, a Captain, and soldiers ...
TIMON OF ATHENS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THOMAS MIDDLETON WE know no more of Timon o...
The Life of Timon of Athens ...
1.1 Enter Poet ⌈at one door⌉, Painter carrying a picture [at another door], [followed by] Je...
1.2 Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet served in, ⌈Flavius and Servants attending⌉...
2.1 Enter a Senator ⌈With bonds⌉ SENATOR And late five thousand. To Varro and to Isido...
2.2 Enter Flavius, with many bills in his hand FLAVIUS No care, no stop; so senseless...
3.1 Enter Flaminius, with a box under his cloak, waiting to speak with Lucullus. From his ma...
3.2 Enter Lucius, with three Strangers LUCIUS Who, the Lord Timon? He is my very good fr...
3.3 Enter Timon’s Third Servant, with Sempronius, another of Timon’s friends SEMPRONIUS ...
3.4 Enter Varro’s two Servants, meeting others, all Servants of Timon’s creditors, to wait f...
3.5 Enter Timon and Flavius TIMON They have e’en put my breath from me, the slaves. ...
3.6 Enter three Senators at one door FIRST SENATOR My lords, you have my voice to’t. ...
3.7 Enter divers of Timon’s friends, ⌈amongst⌉ them Lucullus, Lucius, Sempronius, and other ...
4.1 Enter Timon TIMON Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall That girdles in ...
4.2 Enter Flavius, with two or three Servants FIRST SERVANT Hear you, master steward,...
4.3 Enter Timon ⌈from his cave⌉ in the woods, ⌈half naked, and with a spade⌉ TIMON O b...
5.1 Enter Poet and Painter PAINTER As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where h...
5.2 Enter Flavius and two Senators FLAVIUS It is in vain that you would speak with Ti...
5.3 Enter two other Senators, with a Messenger ⌈THIRD⌉ SENATOR Thou hast painfully di...
5.4 Enter a Soldier, in the woods, seeking Timon SOLDIER By all description, this sho...
5.5 Trumpets sound. Enter Alcibiades with his powers, before Athens ALCIBIADES Sound ...
MACBETH BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ADAPTED BY THOMAS MIDDLETON) SHORTLY after James VI of...
The Tragedy of Macbeth ...
1.1 Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches FIRST WITCH When shall we three meet a...
1.2 Alarum within. Enter king Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, with attendants, meeting a...
1.3 Thunder. Enter the three Witches FIRST WITCH Where hast thou been, sister? SEC...
1.4 Flourish. Enter King Duncan, Lennox, Malcolm, Donalbain, and attendants KING DUNCAN ...
1.5 Enter Lady Macbeth, with a letter LADY MACBETH (reading) ‘They met me in the day of ...
1.6 ⌈Hautboys and torches.⌉ Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, ...
1.7 Hautboys. Torches. Enter a sewer and divers servants with dishes and service over the st...
2.1 Enter Banquo and Fleance, with a torch before him BANQUO How goes the night, boy? ...
2.2 Enter Lady Macbeth LADY MACBETH That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold...
2.3 Enter a Porter. Knocking within PORTER Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porte...
2.4 Enter Ross with an Old Man OLD MAN Threescore and ten I can remember well, ...
3.1 Enter Banquo BANQUO Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all As the wei...
3.2 Enter Lady Macbeth and a Servant LADY MACBETH Is Banquo gone from court? SERVANT ...
3.3 Enter three Murderers FIRST MURDERER (to Third Murderer) But who did bid thee joi...
3.4 Banquet prepared. Enter Macbeth as King, Lady Macbeth as Queen, Ross, Lennox, Lords, and...
3.5 Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting Hecate FIRST WITCH Why, how now, Hecate?...
3.6 Enter Lennox and another Lord LENNOX My former speeches have but hit your thought...
4.1 A Cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches FIRST WITCH Thrice the brinded cat h...
4.2 Enter Macduff’s Wife, her Son, and Ross LADY MACDUFF What had he done to make him...
4.3 Enter Malcolm and Macduff MALCOLM Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there ...
5.1 Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman DOCTOR I have two nights watched ...
5.2 Enter Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, soldiers, with a drummer and colours MENTE...
5.3 Enter Macbeth, the Doctor of Physic, and attendants MACBETH Bring me no more repo...
5.4 Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Siward’s Son, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, and soldiers, ...
5.5 Enter Macbeth, Seyton, and soldiers, with a drummer and colours MACBETH Hang out ...
5.6 Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, and their army with boughs, with a drummer and colours ...
5.7 Enter Macbeth MACBETH They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear...
5.8 Alarums. Enter Macduff MACDUFF That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! ...
5.9 Enter Malcolm and Siward SIWARD This way, my lord. The castle’s gently rendered. ...
5.10 Enter Macbeth MACBETH Why should I play the Roman fool, and die On mine o...
5.11 Retreat and flourish. Enter with a drummer and colours Malcolm, Siward, Ross, thanes, a...
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA FIRST printed in the 1623 Folio, Antony and Cleopatra had been enter...
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra ...
1.1 Enter Demetrius and Philo PHILO Nay, but this dotage of our General’s O‘er...
1.2 Enter Enobarbus, a Soothsayer, Charmian, Iras, Mardian the eunuch, Alexas, ⌈and attendan...
1.3 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas, and Iras CLEOPATRA Where is he? CHARMIAN I ...
1.4 Enter Octavius reading a letter, Lepidus, and their train CAESAR You may see, Lep...
1.5 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian CLEOPATRA Charmian! CHARMIAN Madam? ...
2.1 Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike manner POMPEY If the great gods b...
2.2 Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus LEPIDUS Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed, An...
2.3 Enter Antony and Caesar; Octavia between them ANTONY The world and my great offic...
2.4 Enter Lepidus, Maecenas, and Agrippa LEPIDUS Trouble yourselves no further. Pray ...
2.5 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas CLEOPATRA Give me some music—music, m...
2.6 Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with a drummer and a trumpeter; at another...
2.7 Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet FIRST SERVANT Here they’ll b...
3.1 Enter Ventidius, with Silius and other Roman soldiers, as it were in triumph; the dead b...
3.2 Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another AGRIPPA What, are the brothers parted? ...
3.3 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas CLEOPATRA Where is the fellow? ALE...
3.4 Enter Antony and Octavia ANTONY Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that, That wer...
3.5 Enter Enobarbus and Eros, meeting ENOBARBUS How now, friend Eros? EROS There’s st...
3.6 Enter Agrippa, Maecenas, and Caesar CAESAR Contemning Rome, he has done all this ...
3.7 Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus CLEOPATRA I will be even with thee, doubt it not. ...
3.8 Enter Caesar with his army, marching, and Taurus CAESAR Taurus! TAURUS My lord? CA...
3.9 Enter Antony and Enobarbus ANTONY Set we our squadrons on yon side o’th’ hill ...
3.10 Camidius marcheth with his land army over the stage, and taurus, the lieutenant of caes...
3.11 Enter Antony with Attendants ANTONY Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon’t,...
3.12 Enter Caesar, ⌈Agrippa,⌉ Thidias, and Dolabella, with others CAESAR Let him appe...
3.13 Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, and Iras CLEOPATRA What shall we do, Enoba...
4.1 Enter Caesar, reading a letter, with Agrippa, Maecenas, and his army CAESAR He ca...
4.2 Enter Antony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas, with others ANTONY He...
4.3 Enter a company of Soldiers FIRST SOLDIER Brother, good night. Tomorrow is the da...
4.4 Enter Antony and Cleopatra, with Charmian and others ANTONY (calling) Eros, mine ...
4.5 Trumpets sound. Enter Antony and Eros, meeting a Soldier SOLDIER The gods make th...
4.6 Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar, witih Enobarbus and Dolabella CAESAR Go forth, A...
4.7 Alarum. Enter Agrippa ⌈with drummers and trumpeters⌉ AGRIPPA Retire! We have engag...
4.8 Alarums. Enter Antony, and Scarus wounded SCARUS O my brave Emperor, this is foug...
4.9 Alarum. Enter Antony again in a march; drummers and trumpeters; Scarus, with others ...
4.10 Enter a Sentry and his company; Enobarbus follows SENTRY If we be not relieved w...
4.11 Enter Antony and Scarus with their army ANTONY Their preparation is today by sea...
4.12 Enter Caesar and his army CAESAR But being charged, we will be still by land— ...
4.13 ⌈Alarum afar off, as at a sea fight.⌉ Enter Antony and Scarus ANTONY Yet they are...
4.14 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Mardian CLEOPATRA Help me, my women! O, he’s mo...
4.15 Enter Antony and Eros ANTONY Eros, thou yet behold’st me? EROS Ay, noble l...
4.16 Enter Cleopatra ⌈and her maids aloft⌉, with Charmian and Iras CLEOPATRA O Charmi...
5.1 Enter Caesar with his council of war: Agrippa, Dolabella, Maecenas, Gallus, Proculeius ...
5.2 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian CLEOPATRA My desolation does begin t...
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL All’s Well That Ends Well, first printed in the 1623 Folio, is ...
All’s Well That Ends Well ...
1.1 Enter young Bertram Count of Roussillon, his mother the Countess, Helen, and Lord Lafeu,...
1.2 A flourish of cornetts. Enter the King of France with letters, the two Lords Dumaine, ⌈a...
1.3 Enter the Countess, Reynaldo her steward, and ⌈behind⌉ Lavatch her clown COUNTESS I ...
2.1 Flourish of cornetts. Enter the King ⌈carried in a chair⌉, with the two Lords Dumaine, d...
2.2 Enter the Countess and Lavatch the clown COUNTESS Come on, sir. I shall now put you ...
2.3 Enter Bertram, Lafeu ⌈with a ballad], and Paroles LAFEU They say miracles are past, ...
2.4 Enter Helen reading a letter, and Lavatch the clown HELEN My mother greets me kin...
2.5 Enter Lafeu and Bertram LAFEU But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier. ...
3.1 Flourish of trumpets. Enter the Duke of Florence and the two Lords Dumaine, with a troop...
3.2 Enter the Countess with a letter, and Lavatch COUNTESS It hath happened all as I would h...
3.3 Flourish of trumpets. Enter the Duke of Florence, Bertram, a drummer and trumpeters, sol...
3.4 Enter the Countess and Reynaldo her steward, with a letter COUNTESS Alas! And wou...
3.5 A tucket afar off. Enter an old Widow, her daughter Diana, and Mariana, with other Flore...
3.6 Enter Bertram and the two Captains Dumaine SECOND LORD DUMAINE (to Bertram) Nay, good my...
3.7 Enter Helen and the Widow HELEN If you misdoubt me that I am not she, I kn...
4.1 Enter ⌈Second Lord Dumaine⌉, with five or six other soldiers, in ambush ⌈SECOND⌉ LOR...
4.2 Enter Bertram and the maid called Diana BERTRAM They told me that your name was F...
4.3 Enter the two Captains Dumaine and some two or three soldiers FIRST LORD DUMAINE You...
4.4 Enter Helen, the Widow, and Diana HELEN That you may well perceive I have not wro...
4.5 Enter Lavatch, the old Countess, and Lafeu LAFEU No, no, no, your son was misled wit...
5.1 Enter Helen, the Widow, and Diana, with two attendants HELEN But this exceeding p...
5.2 Enter Lavatch and Paroles, with a letter PAROLES Good Master Lavatch, give my Lord L...
5.3 Flourish of trumpets. Enter the King, the old Countess, Lafeu, and attendants KING ...
PERICLES BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND GEORGE WILKINS A RECONSTRUCTED TEXT ON 20 May 1608...
A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre ...
Sc. 1 Enter Gower as Prologue GOWER To sing a song that old was sung From ...
Sc. 2 Enter Pericles, distempered, with his lords PERICLES Let none disturb us. Ex...
Sc. 3 Enter Thaliart THALIART So this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I kill King...
Sc. 4 Enter Cleon, the Governor of Tarsus, with Dionyza his wife, and others CLEON My ...
Sc. 5 Enter Gower GOWER Here have you seen a mighty king His child, iwis, to i...
Sc. 6 Sennet.Enter King Simonides and Thaisa, with Lords in attendance, and sit on two thron...
Sc. 7 ⌈A stately banquet is brought in.1 Enter King Simonides, Thaisa ⌈and their tra...
Sc. 8 Enter Helicanus and Aeschines HELICANUS No, Aeschines, know this of me: ...
Sc. 8a Enter Pericles with Gentlemen with lights FIRST GENTLEMAN Here is your lodging...
Sc. 9 Enter King Simonides at one door reading of a letter, the Knights enter ⌈at another do...
Sc. 10 Enter Gower GOWER Now sleep y-slacked hath the rout, No din but snores ...
Sc. 11 ⌈Thunder and lightning.⌉ Enter Pericles a-shipboard PERICLES The god of this g...
Sc. 12 Enter Lord Cerimon with a ⌈poor man and a⌉ servant CERIMON Philemon, ho! En...
Sc. 13 Enter Pericles at Tarsus, with Cleon and Dionyza, and Lychorida with a babe PERIC...
Sc. 14 Enter Cerimon and Thaisa CERIMON Madam, this letter and some certain jewels ...
Sc. 15 Enter Gower GOWER Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre, Welcomed and settle...
Sc. 16 ⌈A brothel sign.] Enter the Pander, his wife the Bawd, and their man Boult PANDER...
Sc. 17 Enter ⌈in mourning garments⌉ Cleon and Dionyza DIONYZA Why, are you foolish? Can i...
Sc. 18 Enter Gower GOWER Thus time we waste, and long leagues make we short, S...
Sc. 19 ⌈A brothel sign.⌉ Enter two Gentlemen FIRST GENTLEMAN Did you ever hear the like? ...
Sc. 20 Enter Gower GOWER Marina thus the brothel scapes, and chances Into an ho...
Sc. 21 Enter Helicanus ⌈above; below, enter⌉ to him at the first door two Sailors, ⌈one of T...
Sc. 22 Enter Gower GOWER Now our sands are almost run; More a little, and then ...
CORIOLANUS FOR Coriolanus, Shakespeare turned once more to Roman history as told by Pluta...
The Tragedy of Coriolanus ...
1.1 Enter a company of mutinous Citizens with staves, clubs, and other weapons FIRST CIT...
1.2 Enter Aufidius, with Senators of Corioles FIRST SENATOR So, your opinion is, Aufid...
1.3 Enter Volumnia and Virgilia, mother and wife to Martius. They set them down on two low s...
1.4 Enter Martius, Lartius with a drummer, ⌈a trumpeter,⌉ and colours, with captains and Sol...
1.5 Enter ⌈Roman Soldiers, in retreat, followed by⌉ Martius, cursing MARTIUS All the ...
1.6 Enter certain Romans with spoils FIRST ROMAN This will I carry to Rome. SECOND RO...
1.7 Enter Cominius, as it were in retire, with soldiers COMINIUS Breathe you, my frie...
1.8 Enter Lartius ⌈Through the gates of Corioles⌉, with a drummer and a trumpeter, a Lieuten...
1.9 Alarum, as in battle. Enter Martius, bloody, and Aufidius, at several doors MARTIUS ...
1.10 Alarum. A retreat is sounded. ⌈Flourish.⌉Enter at one door Cominius with the Romans, at...
1.11 Enter Aufidius, bloody, with two or three Soldiers AUFIDIUS The town is ta’en. A SOL...
2.1 Enter Menenius with the two tribunes of the people, Sicinius and Brutus MENENIUS The...
2.2 Enter two Officers, to lay cushions, as it were in the Capitol FIRST OFFICER Come, c...
2.3 Enter seven or eight Citizens FIRST CITIZEN Once, if he do require our voices we oug...
3.1 Cornetts. Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, all the gentry; Cominius, Lartius, and other Senat...
3.2 Enter Coriolanus, with Nobles CORIOLANUS Let them pull all about mine ears, prese...
3.3 Enter Sicinius and Brutus BRUTUS In this point charge him home: that he affects ...
4.1 Enter Coriolanus, Volumnia, Virgilia, Menenius, and Cominius, with the young nobility of...
4.2 Enter the two tribunes, Sicinius and Brutus, with the Aedile SICINIUS (to the Aedile...
4.3 Enter Nicanor, a Roman, and Adrian, a Volscian NICANOR I know you well, sir, and you...
4.4 Enter Coriolanus in mean apparel, disguised and muffled CORIOLANUS A goodly city ...
4.5 Music plays. Enter a Servingman FIRST SERVINGMAN Wine, wine, wine! What service is h...
4.6 Enter the two tribunes, Sicinius and Brutus SICINIUS We hear not of him, neither ...
4.7 Enter Aufidius with his Lieutenant AUFIDIUS Do they still fly to th’ Roman? LIEUT...
5.1 Enter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius and Brutus, the two tribunes, with others MENENIU...
5.2 Enter Menenius to the Watch or guard FIRST WATCHMAN Stay. Whence are you? SECOND ...
5.3 Enter Coriolanus and Aufidius, with Volscian soldiers. ⌈Coriolanus and Aufidius sit⌉ ...
5.4 Enter Menenius and Sicinius MENENIUS See you yon coign o’th’ Capitol, yon corner-sto...
5.5 Enter ⌈at one door⌉ Lords ⌈and Citizens⌉, ⌈at another door⌉ two Senators with the ladies...
5.6 Enter Tullus Aufidius with attendants AUFIDIUS Go tell the lords o‘th’ city I am ...
THE WINTER’S TALE THE astrologer Simon Forman saw The Winter’s Tale at the Globe on 15 Ma...
The Winter’s Tale ...
1.1 Enter Camillo and Archidamus ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohem...
1.2 Enter Leontes, Hermione, Mamillius, Polixenes, and ⌈Camillo⌉ POLIXENES Nine change...
2.1 Enter Hermione, Mamillius, and Ladies HERMIONE Take the boy to you. He so trouble...
2.2 Enter Paulina, a Gentleman, and attendants PAULINA The keeper of the prison, call...
2.3 Enter Leontes LEONTES Nor night nor day, no rest! It is but weakness To bea...
3.1 Enter Cleomenes and Dion CLEOMENES The climate’s delicate, the air most sweet; ...
3.2 Enter Leontes, Lords, and Officers LEONTES This sessions, to our great grief we p...
3.3 Enter Antigonus, carrying the babe, with a Mariner ANTIGONUS Thou art perfect then ou...
4.1 Enter Time, the Chorus TIME I that please some, try all; both joy and terror ...
4.2 Enter Polixenes and Camillo POLIXENES I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importun...
4.3 Enter Autolycus singing AUTOLYCUS When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh...
4.4 Enter Florizel dressed as Doricles a countryman, and Perdita as Queen of the Feast F...
5.1 Enter Leontes, Cleomenes, Dion, and Paulina CLEOMENES (to Leontes) Sir, you have ...
5.2 Enter Autolycus and a Gentleman AUTOLYCUS Beseech you, sir, were you present at this...
5.3 Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Florizel, Perdita, Camillo, Paulina, Lords, and attendants ...
THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR THE FOLIO TEXT THE text of King Lear given here represents th...
The Tragedy of King Lear ...
1.1 Enter the Earl of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, and Edmond KENT I thought the King h...
1.2 Enter Edmond the bastard EDMOND Thou, nature, art my goddess. To thy law M...
1.3 Enter Goneril and Oswald, her steward GONERIL Did my father strike my gentleman ...
1.4 Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised KENT If but as well I other accents borrow ...
1.5 Enter King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, the First Gentleman, and Lear’s Fool LE...
2.1 Enter Edmond the bastard, and Curan, severally EDMOND Save thee, Curan. CURAN And you...
2.2 Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised, and Oswald the steward, severally OSWALD Good daw...
3.1 Storm still. Enter the Earl of Kent disguised and ⌈the First⌉ Gentleman, severally K...
3.2 Storm still. Enter King Lear and his Fool LEAR Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks...
3.3 Enter the Duke of Gloucester and Edmond GLOUCESTER Alack, alack, Edmond, I like not ...
3.4 Enter King Lear, the Earl of Kent disguised, and Lear’s Fool KENT Here is the pla...
3.5 Enter the Duke of Cornwall and Edmond CORNWALL I will have my revenge ere I depart h...
3.6 Enter the Earl of Kent disguised, and the Duke of Gloucester GLOUCESTER Here is bett...
3.7 Enter the Duke of Cornwall, Regan, Goneril, Edmond the bastard, and Servants CORNWAL...
4.1 Enter Edgar as a Bedlam beggar EDGAR Yet better thus and known to be contemned ...
4.2 Enter Goneril and Edmond the bastard ⌈at one door⌉ and Oswald the steward ⌈at another⌉ ...
4.3 Enter with a drummer and colours, Queen Cordelia, Gentlemen, and soldiers CORDELIA ...
4.4 Enter Regan and Oswald the steward REGAN But are my brother’s powers set forth? ...
4.5 Enter Edgar disguised as a peasant, with a staff, guiding the blind Duke of Gloucester ...
4.6 Enter Queen Cordelia, the Earl of Kent disguised, and ⌈the First⌉ Gentleman CORDELIA ...
5.1 Enter with a drummer and colours Edmond, Regan, Gentlemen, and soldiers EDMOND Kn...
5.2 Alarum within. Enter with a drummer and colours King Lear, Queen Cordelia, and soldiers ...
5.3 Enter in conquest with a drummer and colours Edmond; King Lear and Queen Cordelia as pri...
CYMBELINE OUR first reference to Cymbeline is a note by the astrologer Simon Forman that ...
Cymbeline, King of Britain ...
1.1 Enter two Gentlemen FIRST GENTLEMAN You do not meet a man but frowns. Our bloods ...
1.2 Enter Cloten and two Lords FIRST LORD Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt. The ...
1.3 Enter Innogen and Pisanio INNOGEN I would thou grew‘st unto the shores o’th’ have...
1.4 ⌈A table brought out, with a banquet upon it.⌉ Enter Filario, Giacomo, a Frenchman, a Du...
1.5 Enter Queen, Ladies, and Cornelius, a doctor QUEEN Whiles yet the dew’s on ground...
1.6 Enter Innogen INNOGEN A father cruel and a stepdame false, A foolish suito...
2.1 Enter Cloten and the two Lords CLOTEN Was there ever man had such luck? When I kisse...
2.2 A trunk ⌈and arras⌉. A bed is ⌈thrust forth⌉ with Innogen in it, reading a book. Enter t...
2.3 Enter Cloten and the two Lords FIRST LORD Your lordship is the most patient man in l...
2.4 Enter Posthumus and Filario POSTHUMUS Fear it not, sir. I would I were so sure ...
2.5 Enter Posthumus POSTHUMUS Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be...
3.1 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter in state Cymbeline, the Queen, Cloten, and lords at one door, and at a...
3.2 Enter Pisanio, reading of a letter PISANIO How? Of adultery? Wherefore write you ...
3.3 Enter Belarius, followed by Guiderius and Arviragus, ⌈from a cave in the woods⌉ BELAR...
3.4 Enter Pisanio, and Innogen in a riding-suit INNOGEN Thou told‘st me when we came ...
3.5 ⌈Flourish.⌉ Enter Cymbeline, the Queen, Cloten, Lucius, and lords CYMBELINE (to Luci...
3.6 Enter Innogen, dressed as a man, before the cave INNOGEN I see a man’s life is a ...
3.7 Enter two Roman Senators, and Tribunes FIRST SENATOR This is the tenor of the Emp...
4.1 Enter Cloten, in Posthumus’ suit CLOTEN I am near to th’ place where they should mee...
4.2 Enter Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, and Innogen dressed as a man, from the cave BE...
4.3 Enter Cymbeline, Lords, and Pisanio CYMBELINE Again, and bring me word how ’tis w...
4.4 Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus GUIDERIUS The noise is round about us. ...
5.1 Enter Posthumus, dressed as an Italian gentleman, carrying a bloody cloth POSTHUMUS ...
5.2 ⌈A march.⌉ Enter Lucius, Giacomo, and the Roman army at one door, and the Briton army at...
5.3 The battle continues. ⌈Alarums. Excursions. The trumpets sound a retreat.⌉ The Britons f...
5.4 ⌈The trumpets sound a retreat,⌉ then enter Lucius, Giacomo, and Innogen LUCIUS (to I...
5.5 Enter Posthumus like a poor soldier, and a Briton Lord LORD Cam’st thou from wher...
5.6 ⌈Flourish. ⌉ Enter Cymbeline, Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, Pisanio, and lords CYM...
THE TEMPEST THE King’s Men acted The Tempest before their patron, James I, at Whitehall o...
The Tempest ...
1.1 A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter ⌈severally⌉ a Shipmaster and a...
1.2 Enter Prospero ⌈in his magic cloak, with a staff⌉, and Miranda MIRANDA If by your...
2.1 Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, and Francisco GONZALO (to Alonso)...
2.2 Enter Caliban, wearing a gaberdine, and with a burden of wood CALIBAN ⌈throwing down...
3.1 Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log FERDINAND There be some sports are painful, and th...
3.2 Enter Caliban, Stefano, and Trinculo STEFANO (to Caliban) Tell not me. When the butt...
3.3 Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, and Francisco GONZALO (to Alonso)...
4.1 Enter Prospero, Ferdinand, and Miranda PROSPFRO (to Ferdinand) If I have too aust...
5.1 Enter Prospero, in his magic robes, and Ariel PROSPERO Now does my project gather...
CARDENIO A BRIEF ACCOUNT MANY plays acted in Shakespeare’s time have failed to survive...
ALL IS TRUE (HENRY VIII) BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND JOHN FLETCHER ON 29 June 1613 t...
All Is True Prologue Enter Prologue PROLOGUE I come no more to make you laugh. Thi...
1.1 ⌈A cloth of state throughout the play.⌉ Enter the Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the ot...
1.2 Cornetts. Enter King Henry leaning on Cardinal Wolsey’s shoulder. Enter with them Wolsey...
1.3 Enter the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands LORD CHAMBERLAIN Is’t possible the spel...
1.4 Hautboys. ⌈Enter servants with⌉ a small table for Cardinal Wolsey ⌈Which they place⌉ und...
2.1 Enter two Gentlemen, at several doors FIRST GENTLEMAN Whither away so fast? SE...
2.2 Enter the Lord Chamberlain with a letter LORD CHAMBERLAIN (reads) ‘My lord, the hors...
2.3 Enter Anne Boleyn and an Old Lady ANNE Not for that neither. Here’s the pang that...
2.4 Trumpets: sennet. Then cornetts. Enter two vergers with short silver wands; next them tw...
3.1 Enter Queen Katherine and her women, as at work QUEEN KATHERINE Take thy lute, we...
3.2 Enter the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Suffolk, Lord Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain ...
4.1 Enter the two Gentlemen meeting one another. The first holds a paper FIRST GENTLEMAN...
4.2 ⌈Three chairs.⌉ Enter Katherine Dowager, sick, led between Griffith her gentleman usher,...
5.1 Enter ⌈at one door⌉ Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester; before him, a Page with a torch ...
5.2 Enter ⌈pursuivants, pages, footboys, and grooms. Then enter⌉ Cranmer, Archbishop of Cant...
5.3 Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter ⌈with rushes⌉ and his man ⌈with a broken cudgel⌉ ...
5.4 Enter trumpeters, sounding. Then enter two aldermen, the Lord Mayor of London, Garter Ki...
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN BY JOHN FLETCHER AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WHEN it first appeared ...
The Two Noble Kinsmen Prologue Flourish. Enter Prologue PROLOGUE New plays and mai...
1.1 Music. Enter Hymen with a torch burning, a Boy in a white robe before, singing and strew...
1.2 Enter Palamon and Arcite ARCITE Dear Palamon, dearer in love than blood, A...
1.3 Enter Pirithous, Hippolyta, and Emilia PIRITHOUS No further. HIPPOLYTA Sir,...
1.4 Cornetts. A battle struck within. Then a retreat. Flourish. Then enter Theseus, victor. ...
1.5 Music. Enter the three Queens with the hearses of their lords in a funeral solemnity, wi...
2.1 Enter the Jailer and the Wooer JAILER I may depart with little, while I live; someth...
2.2 Enter Palamon and Arcite in prison, ⌈in shackles, above⌉ PALAMON How do you, noble...
2.3 Enter Arcite ARCITE Banished the kingdom? ’Tis a benefit, A mercy I must t...
2.4 Enter the Jailer’s Daughter JAILER’S DAUGHTER Why should I love this gentleman? ’...
2.5 Short flourish of cornetts and shouts within. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Pirithous, Emili...
2.6 Enter the jailer’s Daughter JAILER’S DAUGHTER Let all the dukes and all the devil...
3.1 A bush in place.⌉ Cornetts in sundry places. Noise and hollering as of people a-Maying. ...
3.2 Enter the Jailer’s Daughter, with a file JAILER’S DAUGHTER He has mistook the bra...
3.3 Enter Arcite with a bundle containing meat, wine, and files ARCITE I should be ne...
3.4 Enter the Jailer’s Daughter JAILER’S DAUGHTER I am very cold, and all the stars a...
3.5 Enter Gerald (a schoolmaster), five Countrymen, one of whom is dressed as a Babion, five...
3.6 Enter Palamon from the bush PALAMON About this hour my cousin gave his faith ...
4.1 Enter the Jailer and his Friend JAILER Hear you no more? Was nothing said of me ...
4.2 ⌈Enter Emilia, with two pictures⌉ EMILIA Yet I may bind those wounds up that must ...
4.3 Enter the Jailer, the Wooer, and the Doctor DOCTOR Her distraction is more at some t...
5.1 ⌈An altar prepared.⌉ Flourish. Enter Theseus, Pirithous, Hippolyta, attendants THESE...
5.2 Enter Palamon and his Knights with the former observance PALAMON (to his Knights) ...
5.3 Still music of recorders. Enter Emilia in white, her hair about her shoulders, with a wh...
5.4 Enter the Doctor, the jailer, and the Wooer in the habit of Palamon DOCTOR Has this ...
5.5 Flourish. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Emilia, Pirithous, and some attendants EMILIA ...
5.6 Enter, guarded, Palamon and his three Knights pinioned; enter with them the Jailer and a...
FURTHER READING by SUSAN BROCK WORKS on individual plays are listed in that section re...
Editions of Shakespeare ...
Single volumes Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily fr...
Multi-volume series New Variorum Shakespeare, ed. H. H. Furness (Philadelphia: Lippincot...
General Reference Berger, Thomas, L., William C. Bradford and Sidney L. Sondergard (eds....
Periodicals Only the last or current publisher is listed. Shakespeare, I―, 1996― ...
Life Chambers, E. K., William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, 2 vols (Oxford...
Authorship Gibson, H. N., The Shakespeare Claimants: A Critical Survey of the Four Princ...
Language Abbott, E. A., A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Di...
Sources Baldwin, T. W., William Shakspere’s Petty School (Urbana IL: University of Illin...
Text Blayney, Peter W. M., The First Folio of Shakespeare (Washington DC: Folger Library...
Performance Bate, Jonathan, and Russell Jackson (eds.), Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stag...
Shakespeare’s playhouse Baldwin, T. W., The Organisation and Personnel of the Company (P...
1700-1900 Foulkes, Richard (ed.), Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage (Cambridge: Cambri...
From 1900 Barton, John, Playing Shakespeare (London: Methuen, 1984) Berry, Ralph,...
TV and Film Ball, Robert Hamilton, Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful Histor...
Criticism ...
History of Criticism Bate, Jonathan, Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (O...
General Alexander, Catherine M. S., and Stanley Wells (eds.), Shakespeare and Race (Camb...
Gender Adelman, Janet, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’...
Comedy Barber, C. L., Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and its Rel...
History Charney, Maurice, Shakespeare’s Roman Plays: The Function of Imagery in the Dram...
Tragedy Bradley, A. C., Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on ‘Hamlet’, ‘Othello’, ‘King Le...
Poems and Sonnets Akrigg, G. P. V., Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton (London: Ham...
Individual Plays The Early Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A M...
Afterlife Bate, Jonathan, The Genius of Shakespeare (London: Picador, 1997) Cohn,...
A SELECT GLOSSARY ...
a, (as pronoun) familiar, unstressed form of ‘he’ abate, to shorten, take from, depri...
back friend, pretended friend back-sword, sword with only one cutting edge baffle,...
cabin, den cabinet, dwelling cacodemon, evil spirit caddis, woollen tape cad...
Daedalus, with his son Icarus, escaped from imprisonment on home-made wings. Icarus flew...
eager, sour, bitter ean, to bring forth (lambs) eanling, young lamb ear, plough...
face, appearance, appearance of right; to put on a false appearance, brave, bully, braze...
gaberdine, loose-fitting coat or cloak gag, prop open, or jerk open gage, pledge; ...
habit, dress, appearance habitude, temperament hackney, prostitute haggard, wil...
Icarus, see DAEDALUS idea, image Ides of March, according to the old Roman calenda...
Jack, jack, fellow, scoundrel, figure striking the hall on a clock; key of a virginal, s...
keech, fat of slaughtered animal rolled into a lump keel, skim ken, range of sight...
laager, camp label, slip of paper, strip of paper or parchment by which a seal is att...
maculate, stained, impure maculation, stain, impurity mainly, with force, greatly,...
nails, by God’s nails naked, unarmed, plain Naso, family name of the poet Ovid ...
oathable, fit to take an oath ob., abbreviation of ‘obolus’, halfpenny objection, ...
pace, train (a horse) to pace pack, gang; conspire, shuffle (cards), to cheat, be off...
quail, prostitute; to fail, faint, overpower quaint, skilful, clever, dainty, line, b...
race, root (of ginger), lineage, breed, natural disposition rack, driving cloud; to t...
sable, black sack, white wine sackbut, trumpet resembling a trombone sad, stead...
table, tablet for an inscription, writing-tablet, flat surface on which a picture is pai...
umbrage, shadow unaccommodated, unprovided unacquainted, unfamiliar unadvised, ...
vail, gratuity, tip, setting (of the sun); lower, let fall, do homage vain, foolish, ...
waft, to convey by water, beckon, turn waftage, passage by water wafture, wave ...
Xantippe, scolding wife of the philosopher Socrates ...
yard, yard measure, penis yare, ready, quick, moving lightly yaw, sail out of cour...
zany, comic performer awkwardly imitating a clown or mountebank ...
INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF SONNETS THE Sonnets are to be found on pp.. The numbers refer to ...
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted Accuse me thus : that I have scanted al...
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press Being your slave, what should I do but tend ...
Canst thou, Ocruel, say I love thee not Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep ...
Devouring time, blunt thou the lion’s paws ...
Farewell—thou art too dear for my possessing For shame deny that thou bear’st love to...
How can I then return in happy plight How can my muse want subject to invent How c...
I grant thou wert not married to my muse I never saw that youpainting need If my d...
Let me confess that we two must be twain Let me not to the marriage of true minds ...
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war Mine eye hath played the painter, and hath ste...
No longer mourn for me when I am dead No more be grieved at that which thou hast done...
O, call not me to justify the wrong O, for my sake do you with fortune chide win O...
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth ...
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?...
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all That god forbid, that made me first yo...
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend ...
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse Weary with toil I haste me to my bed ...
Your love and pity doth th‘impression fill ...
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