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Shakespeare Resources

Electronic Editions

Note: editions may vary and some may be unidentified. Items with an asterisk are available only to Duke-affiliated individuals and those using the resources from within the libraries.

Early English Books Online*
Includes the scanned text of Shakespeare's works.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Literature Online*
Includes the dramatic and poetic works of Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This MIT site is freely available

Shakespeare Bookshelf 
From the Internet Public Library

A CD-ROM version of the Riverside (1974) edition of Shakespeare's complete works is included in WordCruncher vol. 1, housed in Electronic Media -- CALL NUMBER: C97,  located at the Perkins Reserves Desk. The WordCruncher program  provides ease of entry and the facility for a user to operate on the complete text of Shakespeare's works as a single file. If you wish further information about this program, contact the staff at the Reference Desk.