The famous bard’s complete works go online with the first “Inline Glossary” feature open to the public for no charge.
Shakespeare’s complete works are now available for free online at www.PlayShakespeare.com, which launched today to coincide with the famous bard’s birthday.
The site offers all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems, remaining faithful to the writer’s original folio and quartos. The text features — for the first time — an “inline glossary,” a function that allows users to scroll over select underlined arcane or confusing words and view the definition.
The text on the site can be freely used without copyright or royalty fees for study, research, and performance, but the site requests that users credit PlayShakespeare.com.
William Shakespeare was believed to be born today in 1564. The Elisabethian’s works, such as Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet, are often taught in schools and are favorites for stage and screen adaptations. Shakespeare, who also died on April 23 in 1616 at the age of 52, remains today one of the most popular figures in literary history.
